ORGANIZATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF CIVIC IDENTITY OF STUDENTS OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN

Abstract

The article characterizes four main organizational and pedagogical conditions, manifested in a complex combination, which ensure the formation of the civic identity of British students: 1) actualization of the student-centered approach to the educational process; 2) public engagement of student youth in socially significant activities; 3) introduction of socio-pedagogical cooperation between universities and local communities through the mediation of public organizations at the local and national levels; 4) interdisciplinary integration of English as a state language. It is outlined that a student-centered approach to the organization of the educational process in the universities of Great Britain contributes to the involvement of students in active educational and cognitive, and socially significant activities based on the cooperation of all participants in the educational process and reflection of the acquired knowledge and experience, in general, effectively influencing the formation of the civic identity of students. It is emphasized that today in the universities of Great Britain, civic engagement is integrated into three spheres – educational process, research activity and extracurricular socially significant activity. It is noted that educational activities of the universities with the involvement of the community add value to the experience of students during their higher education, providing them with a wide range of opportunities for learning in general and forming their civic identity in general. It was found that the English language plays an important role in the state differentiation of the British, as it covers with its influence not only the spiritual being of this multinational community, but also provides a sense of mutual complementarity and difference from other states. The construction and maintenance of interpersonal relations, which form the social landscape of the state, takes place in the language, which is why the English language, taking into account the subject of our research, carries out the main coordination of social actions. After all, it is common knowledge that language is the main medium for defining, preserving and transmitting socio-cultural experience, as well as a tool for objectifying the subjective meanings of the development of society. In this way, the formation of the civic identity of student youth in Great Britain is considered in close interaction with the interdisciplinary integration of the English language, since the language itself is one of the most important conditions for the existence of any social community.