TEACHER'S READINESS FOR FORMATION OF CIVIL IDENTITY OF SCHOOL STUDENTS AND PATRIOTIC EDUCATION

The article deals with the actual question of the role of teachers in the patriotic education and the formation of students' civic identity. The authors of the article presented the results of a study on the determination of teachers' readiness for the formation of civic identity and patriotic education of schoolchildren, which was carried out using the author’s questionnaire and as a result of which the authors came to a contradiction about the need to educate patriots at a higher, qualitatively new level in accordance with social order and lack the readiness of teachers of general educational organizations to patriotic education in new conditions. Emphasis is placed on the organization of systematic work on the training of teachers of general educational organizations for patriotic education and the formation of the civic identity of schoolchildren in the new conditions for the development of the world community.