Tseyko V.A. 1
1 «Gymnasium number 7 S.V.Vasileva named Hero of Russia»
This paper deals with an urgent problem as raising the awareness and culture of life safety of schoolchildren is stated in the Russian Federation legislation. Senior high school students are at that very age which is considered favourable for forming life safety culture. The author carried out the analysis of the essence of life safety which shows that the existing definitions give an enumeration of some qualities and features of a person which are not component-integrated; this complicates the organization of process of forming life safety culture and studying its efficiency. So far no thesis has been written yet which focus is on forming life safety culture of senior high school students. Besides, these definitions do not name any necessary components of the structure of forming life safety culture of senior high school students, which are to be taught in the course “Life safety basics”. In the paper the author puts forward a well-grounded definition of the essence and the description of the components of life safety culture of senior high school students using component method. The paper contents conform to the demands and aims of modern education which focuses on personalized learning and learner-centered teaching approach.