THE ESSENCE AND NATURE OF PATRIOTISM AS A PEDAGOGICAL CATEGORY

Abstract

The article highlights a problem of analyzing modern views and scientific approaches to the nature of patriotism as a broad social phenomenon and a category of pedagogy. The relevance of the topic studied in the article is the need to track the dynamics of the development of patriotic aspirations of today’s children and adolescents born in the XXI century – at the stage of their school adulthood, in the context of globalization, computerization and total connectivity of the modern world. The problem of the research consists in the analysis of the essence and nature of patriotism as the basis for the formation of patriotic feelings and moods in the children’s and adolescent youth environment of a modern educational organization. The main ways to solve the problem are: substantiation of the principles of constructing pedagogical forms of patriotic education of students in secondary schools. The result of the research is to determine the basic principles of constructing new forms of patriotic education and identify the possibilities of their application in practice. The main conclusions of the research are to rethink the philosophical and pedagogical meaning of the category of patriotism and highlight the principles of constructing forms of patriotic education for children and adolescents of 21 century.