Keyword: «senior teenagers»

The paper considers the problem of senior teenagers’ divergent thinking. The paper considers the problem of formation of divergent thinking, agerelated peculiarities of divergent thinking of older adolescents and determines the basic concepts, the results of the study, direction for further work.

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.