PREREQUISITES FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN MODERN RUSSIA

Abstract

The presented article contains the materials of the study of the correlation of the national educational policy and civic education. In the preamble to the study, its key categories are specified: civic consciousness, civic education, civic qualities, civic culture. The historical approach used by the authors made it possible to trace the dynamics of this process in the historical and pedagogical context. The starting point of the historical and pedagogical analysis was civic education in patriarchal Russia (9th century), it was considered up to the modern national educational policy. It is proved that civic education is determined by the above-mentioned policy for the strengthening of statehood, ideology, and organizations of law. The historical dynamics of this process have reflected the fact that national educational policy is changeable. In accordance with this, the standards of civic education are changing. Politics, by virtue of its purpose – the management of state authorities by people with the help of law and order, the regulation of power relations – is interested in educating the younger generation in a civic culture. It unites all the previously mentioned phenomena (citizen, civic consciousness, civic qualities), complementing them with knowledge, worldview, goals and values, rights and freedoms, and civic behavior.