Patriotism as А Value: Essence and Future Prospects

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of patriotism based on the unity of its cognitive and emotional components. Therefore, patriotism as a social phenomenon has been characterized. Moreover, patriotism has the essential indicators, which are practically manifested through personality's behavior, action and communication. The author defines patriotism as an unconditional and highly meaningful feeling-value, which characterizes the person's attitude towards people, homeland, state and oneself. Unconditional aspect of patriotism means that the feeling of patriotism cannot be founded on external forms of encouragements. The highly semantic aspect of patriotism is not associated with the lower, existential needs, but with the highest life determinants of personality. According to a conceptual definition of patriotism, the author proposes the basic components that serve as diagnostic signals to determine its degree of development in a particular personality. A set of regulations, based on deep psychological mechanism, is practically significant for educators in order to organize the process of developing a feeling of patriotism. As a result, they are very effective in the educational process.

Development of Social Partnership in the Field of Additional Education.

“…A significant role in this aspect is played by the family and other social institutions such as mass media, public organizations, cultural and sports institutions, religious organizations, law-enforcement agencies, social protection offices, corporate associations, etc. (Bekh, 2018;Petrochko and Okushko, 2017;Petrochko, 2018).…”

Educational Potential of the Activities of Information Institutions During the War Period

“…In modern national pedagogical theory and practice, the problem of transition to a fundamentally new system of educational relations is covered by the studies of I. Bekh [3], O. Vyshnevs'kyi [4], I. Zyazyun [9] and others. Thus, O. Vyshnevs'kyi emphasizes three types of patriotism: ethnic patriotism, which is based on the sense of belonging to one's people, culture, and history; territorial patriotism, the foundation of which is love for the place on earth, terrain, landscape, climate, etc., where a person was born; statecraft patriotism has a unifying force: if the ultimate goal of the nation is to build its own stateits state self-determination, then the main goal of education is the development of a statecraft worldview and feeling in our children the higher patriotism that is based on state ideology and is connected with the concept of citizenship [4, P. 269-271].…”

Patriotic education as part of history classes for students of engineering universities

“…The problem of preserving historical memory in patriotic education is presented in the works [8][9][10][11][12]. The definition of the concept of patriotism and specific methods of its formation based on a synthesis of modern technologies have been widely investigated [13][14][15][16]. Dickvan Straaten pointed out that teachers must engage students in building «images of time» [17,18].…”