PROBLEMS OF YOUTH EXTREMISM: THEORETICAL ASPECTS
Nowadays the problem of youth extremism prevention is one of the priorities of governmental and law enforcement bodies due to the large-scale distribution of extremist ideologies among young people by means of internet sources. Obviously, educational institutions of higher and professional education should intensify the discipline work in the given field, that is pay special attention to patriotic education and form skills of extremism confrontation. This requires to: 1). Find out the meaning of the term “extremism” in regulatory and educational literature in order to draw out the features of the given notion and to specify the measures of its prevention in an educational institution; 2). Identify the youth population most affected by extremist ideologies; 3). Identify the most effective means for youth extremism prevention in an educational institution; 4). Find out whether information educational environment of an educational institution can be the means of youth extremism prevention; 5). Implement preventive measures in the educational process and estimate their efficiency. In the given article, we consider implementation of two first stages of our research, aimed at revealing the vocabulary and defining the youth population most affected by extremist ideologies.