The need for a spiritual and moral revival of Kazakhstan’s society is due to the fact that it is undergoing a crisis that is a reflection of the global civilization crisis (the spread of religious sects, the operation of terrorist organizations and other destructive structures). Currently, in order to preserve socio-economic stability in Kazakhstan’s society, it is necessary to solve the problem of personal crisis, which manifests itself as a crisis of its spirituality. Therefore, in education, it becomes relevant to study the approaches to the spiritual and moral development of high school students in the framework of the implementation of the NDO Self-Cognition Program. In order to reveal the peculiarities of the spiritual and moral development of a high school student in the context of the implementation of the Self-Knowledge NDO Program, we need to study the problems of the spiritual and moral development of the individual as a whole. A lot of researches have been devoted to the study of the problems of the spiritual and moral development of the individual, but the generally accepted theory still does not exist, since the concept of «spiritual and moral development» is inherently interdisciplinary. The authors consider the diversity of conceptual approaches in understanding the essence of this process, as well as the essence of the concepts of «spirituality» and «morality» in philosophy, psychology and pedagogy.

The relevance of the research is due to the role of the image of fear in the modern psychological literature on art therapy and drawing techniques, that do not correspond to the new technologically determined trends in the development of the world, and carry outdated information about images reflecting children's fear. The presented study reflects the manifestation of the image of fear in younger schoolchildren by means of an art-therapeutic method of work, conversation and analysis of children's drawings, revealing new images of fear and its sources due to the trends of the modern social world. The study of fear, in the modern interpretation of the changing world, is important for understanding its essence, the threats it carries, the peculiarities of the manifestation and development of the personal potential of schoolchildren. Fear - as an indicator of a child's development, it can reflect the level of development, the individuality of perception of the world and the peculiarity of adaptation. The problem of the child's fears reflects family well-being, revealing the relationship between parents and the child, their attitude to his development and position in social, interpersonal, interethnic interaction affecting the orientation and adaptation of the child in the socio-cultural environment. The study involved 50 primary school-age students of the Nur–Sultan gymnasium. In the course of the article, three main sources of fear were identified, a new image of fear in the children's drawing was revealed, reflecting the external influence of the Internet space on primary school-age students. The results obtained allow us to conclude that primary school age is one of the most difficult age periods in which neurotic fears may appear, which subsequently worsen the emotional state of children.

The article reveals the purpose and novelty of the research, which consists in developing a program for the self-improvement of teachers in the light of the moderni-zation of public consciousness, aimed at self-knowledge, self-development and self-improvement of future teachers, who play a leading role in the transformation of public consciousness. The area of practical use of the results: self-knowledge, social pedagogy, social psychology, education system, system of training and advanced training of teachers. Economic efficiency or significance of the work is determined by scientific contribution to solving the problems of social and pedagogical science for solving the problems of the state program for modernization of society "Rukhani zhagyru". Predictive assumptions about the development of the research object are based on fundamentally new formulation of the research topic. The results of the project contribute to solving problems of social and pedagogical prevention of suicide on the basis of self-improvement of teachers, modernization of public consciousness.