Keyword: «patriotic consciousness»

Level of value orientations fixation is crucial in patriotic consciousness establishment. The analysis of value orientations among senior school children of Kirov, which was carried out by means of questioning, showed the low level of patriotic consciousness in young people. That indirectly demonstrates irrationally organized process of patriotic education and lack of interaction between school and family in the matter. It is offered to carry out regular diagnostics of schoolchildren value orientations among different age groups and also the correcting activities of patriotic orientation.

The article describes the results of studying the patriotic consciousness and patriotic behavior of the eighth graders of Kirov school. The obtained data indicate the predominance of spontaneously formed emotional and sensual patriotism of senior teenagers. This indicates an irrationally organized process of patriotic education, as well as the lack of interaction between school and family in this issue. The regularly diagnostics of the value orientations of students of different age groups, as well as corrective measures of patriotic orientation were proposed.