Keyword: «civil and patriotic education»

The authors analyze the concepts «citizen» and «civic consciousness» in the environment of modern youth, the reasons of civil activity decrease among school and university students. The authors suggest thee actions, directed on increase the level of civil activity.

The paper presents the author's methodical system of realization of civil-patriotic education in specialized geographic education that meets the cultural ideas of student-oriented learnings. The authors view formation of civic consciousness and patriotism in the relevant geographic education through targeted, meaningful and effective procedure and evaluation methodological components of the system.