The article deals with an issue of identifying specifi c features of forming civil identity of school students in the process of personal development. Civil identity is regarded as one of the most complicated varieties of social identity that implies development in the person of a high level of self-consiousness. In each stage of growing, the child faces the tasks of relating oneself to new, broader and more complicated social structures. For example, in order to assimilate the notion of state, the citizen has to identify oneself as a member of a family, a representative of his or her extended family, of a social group, of a people, a nation. The article analyses the formation of civil identity among school students, i.e. cognitive (forming the image of home country, seeing oneself as a citizen with one’s own social roles); value-related and emotional (belonging to a nation, being proud of one’s country); behavioural (willingness to be useful to one’s home country); their interaction based on empirical data (in fi lling the questionnaire 502 school students of Cherepovets took part, their age was 10‒17). By the time of graduation, the students have formed their cognitive component of civil identity. Empathy, compassion, readiness to provide help are considered positive in our society, and teenagers share this belief, whereas in real-life situations they often take a passive stand and withdraw from solving problems. Emotional, value related and behavioural components are developed insuffi ciently. It is in the personal involvement that the disruption of cognitive, emotional, assessment-related and behavioural components takes places. Inspiring active empathy in school children is a very important task that challenges teachers nowadays. Building civil identity in school students is shown through an example of running volunteer summer-camp activities. Under guidance of a summer-camp supervisor, school students become involved in performing a certain useful task and are responsible for its outcome.
formation of civil identity, development of student’s personality, components of civil identity: cognitive, emotional and value-related, behavioural
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Soloveva Elena
Academic Degree: Candidate of Sciences
* in Philology;
Academic Rank: Associate Professor;
Place of work: Cherepovets State University, 5 Pr. Lunacharskogo, Cherepovets 162600, Russian Federation;
Post: Associate Professor;
ORCID: 0000-0002-3730-0694;
Email: esk63@mail.ru.
*According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, the degree of Candidate of Sciences (Cand.Sc.) belongs to ISCED level 8 — "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar.
Popova Svetlana
Academic Degree: Doctor of Sciences
* in Education;
Academic Degree: Candidate of Sciences
* in Education;
Academic Rank: Associate Professor;
Place of work: Cherepovets State University; 5 Pr. Lunacharskogo, Cherepovets 162600, Russian Federation;
Post: Leading Researcher;
ORCID: 0000-0002-2677-1917;
Email: psvetlana2015@mail.ru.
*According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, the degree of Candidate of Sciences (Cand.Sc.) belongs to ISCED level 8 — "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar.