CIVIC AND PATRIOTIC EDUCATION: THE THEORETICAL ASPECT

Abstract

The article talks about the relevance and expediency of civic and patriotic education for society and the state. The researchers consider the problem of civic and patriotic education in its meaningful context. The authors, based on the analysis of key relevant normative legal acts of the Russian Federation, note that the formation of a citizen and a patriot are strategic goals of education. The article analyzes the categories of “thinking”, “historical thinking”, “historical consciousness”, “civic education”, “patriotism”. The authors show the relationship between the concepts of “historical consciousness”, “critical thinking” and “historical thinking”. The article substantiates the interdependence of the categories “independence” and “responsibility”, on one hand, and “patriotism”, “Fatherland” and “citizenship”, on the other hand. The researchers conclude that historical consciousness is a condition for the formation of historical thinking, which, in turn, is the basis of civic and patriotic education.