EDUCATION OF PATRIOTISM AMONG STUDENTS BASED ON EXAMPLES OF COURAGE AND HEROISM OF PARTICIPANTS IN A SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION

Abstract

The article deals with substantiation of a new direction of heroic and patriotic education – forming of patriotism among students using examples of the exploits of participants in a special military operation. The purpose of the publication is to inform the Russian pedagogical community about the expediency of using a new direction in the process of educating patriots, providing for the constructive use of the educational potential of the facts of courage and heroism shown by Russian soldiers on the battlefield during a special military operation. The methodology of this study provides for a theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of “heroic and patriotic education of students,” determining the meaning and content of a new direction in the formation of patriotism among students using examples of courage and heroism committed by participants in a special military operation. The following methods are used in the course of the research: the study of scientific literature, conversations, interviews, theoretical analysis, synthesis, generalization, concretization. A result of the conducted research is the substantiation of a new direction of educational and patriotic activity, which ensures the effective formation of patriotism among modern students on the example of mass facts of heroism of participants in a special military operation. The developed scientific provisions of the new direction of heroic and patriotic education as the basis of patriotic work can be used by teachers and organizers of educational work in educational practice, when conducting new pedagogical research on patriotic topics.