Volunteer Activity as a Means of Patriotic Education of Modern University Students

Relevance of the study: the article is related to the search for approaches to patriotic education implementation of the modern students by means of volunteer activities.

Aim. To identify and reveal the particulars of volunteer activities as patriotic educational work with students of higher education institutions.

Research methods: Pedagogical observation, interviewing, analysis, gathering and processing data. Scientific novelty/theoretical and/or practical significance. The approaches to the volunteer activities organization in educational work with students are substantiated. Volunteer activity is used as a method of patriotic education; a scheme of a systematic approach to the patriotic education of students through the organization of volunteer activities is presented. Two possibilities for organizing volunteer activities are presented – conducting excursions in the museum and collecting memories of former prisoners of concentration camps in Germany, the stages and results of the work are given. Recommendations for working with the witnesses of historical events have been developed.

Research results. Educational work within the framework of organizing student volunteer activities in the historical and patriotic museum is presented, methods and components of educational activities, the basics of collecting memories and working with the witnesses of historical events that will be used in future projects are indicated.

Conclusions. Volunteer activity has a noticeable positive impact on the civic self-determination of students and their awareness of the importance of their own volunteer work. Communication with the witnesses of the Great Patriotic War events gives the younger generation an opportunity to get acquainted with the events from 80 years ago not from textbooks, but rather in a face-to-face confidential communication, to record these memories and pass them on so that the history of our country is not forgotten.

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