Efficiency improvement of the authorities personnel potential concerning measures implementing in the sphere of the national and patriotic education of youth

Abstract

It is determined in the article that under the modern conditions the necessity of developing methodological practice support of state authorities in the sphere of national and patriotic education of young people becomes urgent. An analysis of the problem field of the formation and implementation of the policy of national and patriotic education is conducted and a methodology for raising the skill level of the employees of state authorities, local governments for the purpose of effective organization and implementation of measures for national and patriotic education at the local level is provided. The basic specified requirements of the organization of the national and patriotic education should be attributed: conducting of the national and patriotic education of young people on a systematic basis; ensuring the planned nature of the national and patriotic education; coordinating of the state authorities activity, local government bodies and public organizations in the field of national and patriotic education; permanent searching for new directions, forms and methods of the national and patriotic education of youth; skill developing of persons involved in the processes of the national and patriotic education.The author believes that in present-day conditions, the readiness and ability of the state to pursue the policy of the national and patriotic education of young people depend primarily on its position and responses to a number of topical issues. Firstly, it is the definition of semantic concepts of national and patriotic education as a priority task of the state authorities with embodying the aspirations of millions of Ukrainians to preserve the independence and territorial integrity of the state. Secondly, it is awareness that today the processes of the national and patriotic education require more universal approaches. Thirdly, it is a definition of the semantic space and the interaction nature of the state bodies and civil society institutions in the statement and solution of vital problems for the country.Another current issue is the problem differentiation of the national and patriotic education into its constituent elements on different grounds and a more in-depth study of them.