Delineation of the conceptual apparatus of national self-assertion education in school youth

Abstract

In the article the analyze of national self-assertion educational problem in school youth was made. Insufficiency of
scientific and methodological support was clarified, it actualized the issue of justification of outlined conceptual apparatus of research
on national self-assertion education in school youth in contemporary historical circumstances of Ukrainian state, nation assertion and civil society incipience. The essence of the concept of «national self-assertion» as an integrative property of the individual, which is
manifested in a formed positive national identity, in choosing its active social and civic society position, which is characterized by
responsibility towards his nation, willingness to defend and protect its national interests and is related with mobilization of all his
intellectual and spiritual potential of the individual to succeed in the interests of the Ukrainian people and establishment of the Ukrainian
nation valuation. Attention is paid to society need of carrying out state and civil education of the individual. The prospect of national selfassertion
education of young people, which is aimed at the process of civic nation, civil society formation was described. The education
of national self-assertion of school youth as a purposeful process of the younger generation preparing for life in civil society, the formation
of the ability for national reflection and identification, as well as self-fulfillment in the interests of the Ukrainian nation in order to achieve
their own life success were defined.