ORGANIZATION OF PATRIOTIC EDUCATION OF STUDENTS BASED ON TRADITIONS OF THE REGION

Abstract

The article discusses the main features of organizing students’ patriotic education based on regional traditions. After investigating the role that patriotic education of young people plays in modern Russian society, the author examines the place that regional traditions can occupy in this process at the present stage of higher education development in our country. The author studies the main points of using regional traditions for the purpose of students’ patriotic education in Gzhel State University. Attention is paid to both forms of classroom and extracurricular work. In particular, it refers to the participation of the university in conducting and organizing the traditional competitions “My country – My Russia” and “Blue bird of Gzhel”. The appeal to regional traditions in the higher education system is intended to promote adequate self-determination of students, their active self-realization in a particular sociocultural environment, the formation of patriotism and national identity, education on the cultural traditions of their people with the preservation of the functional field of other cultures.