DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN STUDENTS OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: HISTORICAL AND LOCAL HISTORY ASPECT

Abstract

The upbringing of the younger generation should be based on the ethnocultural revival and development of both the Ukrainian people and other ethnic groups living in Ukraine, providing them with ample opportunities to learn about their history, traditions, customs, language, culture, national sense of national dignity. In its forms and methods, it is based on folk traditions, the best achievements of national and world pedagogy. Realization of these tasks is possible by studying historical experience, in particular, in the field of education, on materials of local lore researches. After all, the legacy of the past is a rich source of information for the education of national and patriotic consciousness in the younger generation. This article analyzes the historical and local lore aspect of the importance of educational and methodological literature in educational institutions of Podillya in the first half of the XIX century, for the formation of the younger generation of national identity; the material support of libraries and visual filling of educational process in schools of the region are investigated. This material is presented as one of the options for conducting extracurricular activities in the form of a historical and local lore circle.