The motivation of the desire of student youth to patriotism in the modern environment

Abstract

The article is devoted to the motivational aspects of the attitude of students to patriotism in the modern environment. The relevance of the study of the problem of patriotic education of university students is determined by a number of circumstances - the social situation now in our country, the changes in public, political, and economic life, the overestimation of values in people's minds.In modern conditions, the priority part of patriotic education is military-patriotic education, focused on the formation of readiness for the defense of the Fatherland, the development of the desire to get military professions, to serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a special form of public service. The material is provided based on the results of the survey in the regions of the South, the West and the SouthEastern part of Ukraine. The groups of motives for the formation of patriotic feelings are defined by the method of comparison: how does the youth consider the concept of “patriotism”, what does patriotism manifest in, how does it influence the formation of patriotic feelings, on what grounds do young people explain the concept of “patriotism”? Patriotic education of student youth is the pedagogical process of the formation of the personality of a citizen and patriot of their homeland based on the adoption of democratic values, compliance with the law, legal norms, universal morality and human participation in democratic processes, preparing them for the implementation of the patriotic education of youth. The pedagogical aspects of this process consist in a purposeful process of attracting students to the norms and values of a democratic society, creating an educational environment at the university that simulates society, democracy, lives according to the laws, organizing students 'participation in the process of democratization of life at the university, respecting students' rights, giving them assistance in the acquisition and accumulation of their own protection experience.