SPECIFIC FEATURES OF FORMING CIVIL IDENTITY IN PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOL STUDENTS
The article deals with an issue of identifying speciﬁc features of forming civil identity of school students in the process of personal development. Civil identity is regarded as one of the most complicated varieties of social identity that implies development in the person of a high level of self-consiousness. In each stage of growing, the child faces the tasks of relating oneself to new, broader and more complicated social structures. For example, in order to assimilate the notion of state, the citizen has to identify oneself as a member of a family, a representative of his or her extended family, of a social group, of a people, a nation. The article analyses the formation of civil identity among school students, i.e. cognitive (forming the image of home country, seeing oneself as a citizen with one’s own social roles); value-related and emotional (belonging to a nation, being proud of one’s country); behavioural (willingness to be useful to one’s home country); their interaction based on empirical data (in ﬁ lling the questionnaire 502 school students of Cherepovets took part, their age was 10-17). By the time of graduation, the students have formed their cognitive component of civil identity. Empathy, compassion, readiness to provide help are considered positive in our society, and teenagers share this belief, whereas in real-life situations they often take a passive stand and withdraw from solving problems. Emotional, valuerelated and behavioural components are developed insuﬃciently. It is in the personal involvement that the disruption of cognitive, emotional, assessment-related and behavioural components takes places. Inspiring active empathy in school children is a very important task that challenges teachers nowadays. Building civil identity in school students is shown through an example of running volunteer summer-camp activities. Under guidance of a summer-camp supervisor, school students become involved in performing a certain useful task and are responsible for its outcome.