TOURIST AND LOCAL HISTORY ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS AS AN EFFECTIVE MEANS OF PATRIOTIC EDUCATION

Abstract

The study shows how students majoring in tourist and local history can use their activities as an effective means in their patriotic education. The work reveals the necessity of intensifying the patriotism formation among modern students, including by this kind of activity means. The article studies some trends in the modern society development and, in particular, the education system, contributing to the use of tourism and local history activities in the process of students’ patriotic education actualization. Further, its potential as a means of patriotic education is demonstrated. The most significant features of the relevant activities’ main types are highlighted. The experience of using tourism and local history activities as a means of students’ patriotic education in some Russian Federation regions is studied.