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The fact that the emphasis in modern education is put on the development of the person, while the system-forming foundations of the personal changes (the person's sphere of meanings) are getting insufficient attention, is confirmed by the existence of contradiction between the manifested social need in conscious attitude of modern person to the reality, value-related reflection on the bases of his/her socio-cultural transforming activity, ability to extract the personal-valuable content from information and the lack of readiness of the educational sphere to create the corresponding conditions for the development of the value- and sense-related sphere of the personality of students.
There is presented in the article the author's conception of the formation of meaning in the pedagogical process. There are shown the possibilities to interpret the essence of the process of the cultural experience mastering as formation of meaning in the process of understanding. Understanding as a cultural-creative and person-developing process ensures the introduction of the student into the world of culture and includes the following levels: actualization of the personal meaning, its interaction with the cultural significance, formation of conscious personal value-related position, intelligent setting of the goals of cultural-creative activity.