PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS OF FORMING STUDENTS’ IDENTITY IN THE LESSONS OF SOCIAL DISCIPLINES

The article is dedicated to the problem of forming students’ national and civic identity by means of the content of disciplines of civic and historical educational branches. The relevance of the study, on the one hand, is explained by the events of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which aggravated issues related to the formation of national and civic identity in Ukrainian society. On the other hand, it is explained by the search for didactic methods of implementing identity through education, caused by the complexity of the phenomenon itself. The main strategies for constructing personal identity based on the analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature and state regulatory legal acts were determined. Barriers to the formation of students’ identity were analyzed in the study. Examples of the implementation of cognitive strategies important for removing barriers were given; methods of articulation, reflection, and transformation of the problem into a new experience were analyzed. The strategies defined in the Law of Ukraine “On the Basic Principles of State Policy in the Sphere of Strengthening Ukrainian National and Civic Identity” and the Strategy for Strengthening Ukrainian National and Civic Identity for the period until 2030 and the approval of the operational plan of measures for its implementation in 2023–2025 are important. It was determined that the important factors for the implementation of strategies for constructing national and civic identity of adolescents were as follows: the formation of the content of historical, legal, and civic education; integration of discipline areas; shifting the emphasis in the content (for example, identity at different stages of historical development), refusal from old explanatory schemes; concentric approach to teaching history and civic education; orientation to the Ukrainian-centric approach.