Individual and Collective: The Sight through the Prism of Formation of National Civil Identity
The aim of the study is the analysis of causes of the problems of modern Russian upbringing and the search for solutions to these problems through regulation of categories correlation «individual» and «collective» in education of rising generations. Methods. Axiological and anthropological approaches put in the basis of methodology of the research have revealed the value and meaning and a focus on the person as the basic value and goal of upbringing. Theoretical analysis of government regulations and scientific literature on the study, and the empirical methods involving interview, observation, questioning are used in the research. Results. The article gives the general characteristic of the problems of modern Russian education and identifies the factors which have become their causes. The positive developments in this priority field of education; in particular, recently increased attention from the state and society to the issues of education and raising it to the rank of one of the key instruments of progressive socio-cultural development of the country. Scientific novelty. It is shown that «individual» and «collective» categories have the social importance and historical significance to meet the challenges of modern education and play the role in the formation of emotional and cognitive unity of the individual representations, own place in the world, in the system of interpersonal relations; approval of the social significance of the individual for conservation, reproduction and development of modern Russian society is pointed out. Practical significance. Perspective directions of the upbringing content that meet modern requirements of society, the state and the individual, are emphasized.