The Implementation of Youth Social Programs for Patriotic Education Citizens of Russian Federation: Experience of Saint-Petersburg

The article analyzes the state policy in the field of patriotic education. Particular attention is paid to the program approach and the justification of the need to include the practice of patriotic education in nation-building and civic education. The authors consider theoretical bases of patriotic education and conducted a retrospective analysis of the state policy in the field of patriotic education in the USSR and Russia. The analysis of targets and scorecards of the last three state programs of patriotic education of citizens of the Russian Federation leads to the conclusion that they have a mismatch targets and tools to achieve the goal. Latitude expected results covering the economic, political and social spheres, while specific measures are reduced, in most cases, to the military-patriotic work with schoolchildren and young people. This determines the importance and responsibility of regional youth social policy in the system of patriotic education in the Russian Federation and leads to the necessity to continuously improve the regulatory framework, to develop new mechanisms and improve the effectiveness of interventions. Program approach is considered as a basis of formation of system of patriotic education in St. Petersburg. The authors emphasize that the integration of patriotic education in a program to provide the public consent is a marker of a comprehensive transformation in this area. It is no longer about patriotic education per se, as it was in the previous Soviet and Russian tradition, but a more complex formation of patriotism in the context of national and civic identity. This is reflected in including in a variety of activities aimed at the development of civil and patriotic education of citizens in St. Petersburg system, as well as high values of indicators of the program.