Improving Information Literacy on the Development of the Younger Generation’s Civic Engagement

Currently, the public, educators and politicians should work more actively to prevent extremist and aggressive sentiments and deviant behavior among modern youth.This can be achieved, among other things, by improving information literacy on the formation and development of positive civic engagement among the younger generation.The purpose of this manuscript is to examine the phenomenon of civic engagement of the younger generation by improving information literacy on the phenomenon under consideration.Information literacy on the development of civic engagement is enhanced by historical and pedagogical understanding of the experience of civic and patriotic education of schoolchildren and the fundamental content of the program for the development of positive civic engagement.The program is presented fully and comprehensively and consists of the following sections: program passport, goals and objectives, results of activities, scientific and methodological justification of the program, roadmap for organizing the process of formation and development of a positive image of civic engagement of the younger generation.This article may be useful to specialists in the field of educational work, methodologists, educators and researchers in the educational field of pedagogical science in terms of social and civic education in the fragile and changing conditions of modern times.