Education for citizenship as a scientific problem

The Russian society is characterized by the process of forming a new system for educating the younger generation, the core of which is the development of an active citizenship position. The global geopolitical situation poses a whole range of tasks for the education system related to the development of new content of education based on deepening civil law education. Therefore, recently in domestic Pedagogy a certain strategic guideline has emerged for studying issues of civic-patriotic education of the younger generation.

The problem of the research is to substantiate the features of education for citizenship in modern scientific and pedagogical research. Solving this problem is the goal of our research.

The methodological basis of the research is based on socio-pedagogical concepts of civic education, the use of scientific methods (theoretical analysis of scientific literature, normative documents, products of teachers’ activities; descriptions; interpretation; generalizations).

The research results: conceptual models of citizenship in some countries have been described; the essence of the phenomenon «Russian patriotism» has been revealed; aspects of citizenship education in modern pedagogical discourse have been outlined.

Key conclusions: 1) in the scientific literature, four models of citizenship have been revealed: American, British, German and Russian; 2) the core of the concept of «citizenship» is the presence among citizens of a particular country of a number of personal qualities as personal results of educational activities; 3) the pedagogical content of citizenship is associated with the justification of this term as a subject of educational activity; highlighting the totality of civic qualities as personal results of educational activities; creation of a nurturing educational environment; teachers’ possession of the necessary competencies that allow them to carry out this work

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