Author(s)

Dmitry Yu. Narkhov, Elena N. Narkhova, Vlas P. Repin

Corresponding Author

Dmitry Yu. Narkhov

ABSTRACT

They studied changes in patriotic education of Russian students in the post-Soviet period. The study was aimed to find ways of effective interaction between the state and students. The theoretical basis of the article is an interdisciplinary approach and the data of all-Russian sociological surveys. The attention is drawn to the paradoxical situation in the social Institute of higher education – the gap between the functions of translation of professional knowledge and reproduction of culture, education of professional and citizen. They develop the idea of positive social initiative of students as the basis of modern patriotic education. Grant support of significant social initiatives is studied as a new form of social interaction of the state and students. Russian students show positive dynamics of their understanding of patriotism as positive social activity. They give prove for the necessity and possibility of developing a unified approach to the implementation of civil and patriotic education of students in Russian universities.

KEYWORDS

Higher Education, Patriotic Education, Students, State Youth Policy, Self-Realization