PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR FORMING PATRIOTISM AMONG CADETS OF A MARITIME UNIVERSITY WITH REFERENCE TO HEROISM OF ITS PARTICIPANTS

Abstract

Heroism of defenders of the Motherland has always been and remains a vivid example for patriotic education of younger generations. Such powerful educational potential is also possessed by the massive facts of the selfless service of the Russian participants in the special military operation (SMO). The purpose of the publication is to familiarize the teaching staff of higher educational institutions with the complex of pedagogical conditions for the formation of patriotism among cadet youth using examples of exploits performed by the participants of the SMO. The research methodology covers the following set of pedagogical actions: a) conducting a theoretical analysis of Russian scientific literature; b) on the basis of the views of Russian scientists, to give an author’s definition of the term “patriotism of cadet youth”; c) understanding the essence of the concept of “pedagogical conditions”; d) argumentation of the complex of pedagogical conditions necessary for the patriotic education of student cadet youth on examples of exploits performed by participants of their own, disclosure of measures their implementation. The author used a number of pedagogical methods in the course of the research: theoretical analysis; content analysis; analysis of guidance documents; synthesis; conversations, survey, concretization and generalization. The result of the study is substantiation and disclosure of a set of pedagogical conditions for the activation of patriotic education of cadet youth using examples of the heroism of the participants of the SMO. The proposed pedagogical conditions can be constructively used by teachers and organizers of patriotic work in the ongoing practice of raising patriots using the potential of the facts of heroism of defenders of the Motherland committed during the Patriotic War.