NATIONAL IDENTITY AS A COMPONENT OF THE CIVIL STUDENTS’ YOUTH CULTURE

Abstract

The concept of national identity as a component of the civic students’ youth culture formation is revealed. It is noted that in recent decades, education is recognized as the main tool for creating a humane, equal and attentive to human needs society. The main tasks of education include the formation of values and the appropriate lifestyle for modern youth. According to the new approach, the focus is on political, legal and civic education. The article analyzes the use of the terms “national identity”, “national self-identity” and “national consciousness” as synonyms, as they express the ability to focus on objects of the external world, and at the same time focus on states of inner spiritual experience themselves as a certain community (nation), awareness of its essential features and separation of “we” from “not we”. The pedagogical bases of the students’ preparation for patriotic education in the pedagogical university are defined and include the following provisions: achievement of the purpose of preparation – the formation of readiness of the future teachers for the patriotic education of students (is carried out on the basis of interaction of public and personal interests); appropriate teaching and education forms and methods selection in order to prepare future teachers for professional activities, taking into account the new requirements and objectives of society. Accordingly, the following aspects of the future teachers’ readiness for patriotic education are singled out: moral and psychological, practical, which in their unity provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills, and form in them a value attitude to patriotism, and interest in patriotic education. The social order of modern teaching is to raise the implementation of the educational process to a higher and qualitatively new level, to make an integral part of the educational process civic education, and the formation of national identity, tolerance, and values.
 Keywords: national identity; national consciousness; patriotic education; civic culture; civil education; civic education; civic competence; civic activity.