Patriotism in the context of the formation of social competence of the younger generation (using the example of the activities of the supplementary education system)

The process of forming civic guidelines for the social competence of the younger generation is analyzed using the example of the activities of the additional education system in St. Petersburg. The practices of forming civic guidelines for the social competence of the younger generation were chosen as the object of this study. The article presents the materials of a study conducted on the basis of the city Center for Patriotic Education and Preventive Work in 2022, during which the practices of civic and patriotic education of students of educational organizations in St. Petersburg were studied in detail. Two components of the process of forming the social competence of the younger generation were identified: the construction of the semantic content of the value of patriotism (the formulations used to describe this value in the documents studied), as well as the forms of representation of this value directly during the educational process (the forms and types of activities in which students are directly involved). In addition, the frequency of mentions of certain semantic categories in the general discourse space of the Center's activities was recorded. The main methods of scientific research are the method of document analysis and the method of semi-structured interviews. To interpret the results, the authors based the research on the theory of social constructionism and the theory of discourse analysis by E. Laclo and S.Mouff. The authors conclude that today the patriotism is the most important civic quality for the formation of social ties in modern Russia. In some cases its significance is so great that it completely replaces the semantic content of the concept of "citizenship". At the same time, there is a tendency to militarize the concept of patriotism both at the level of constructing its semantic content and in the course of representation practices, presented mainly through semantic categories and activities inextricably linked to military subjects. The authors record the discrepancy between the understanding of the semantic content of civic values by modern adolescents and the older generation. This situation suggests that the existing practices of representing patriotism are not fully consistent with the ideological demands of both the state and the younger generation, which indicates the need to search for new images of civic values.

Social competence, Patriotism, Citizenship, Additional education, younger generation, Social constructionism, Discourse analysis, Civic values, Education, Applied research