Methodological approach to the formation of civic identity in pupils of rural educational organizations in the context of museum-pedagogical activity
The research aims to characterize the fundamental methodological principles formulated in the course of studying the problem of civic identity formation in rural schoolchildren through museum and pedagogical activities using comprehensive, environmental, axiological, local history and activity-based approaches and their corresponding principles. The comprehensive approach facilitates understanding of the interaction between the rural community system and its pedagogical potential along with the museum and pedagogical activity system aimed at the formation of the pupils’ civic identity on the basis of integrity, concentricity and dynamic balance principles. The environmental approach correlates with the integration of the educational potential of natural, social and museum educational environments. In terms of the activity-based approach, museum-pedagogical activity adopting the principles of subjectivity and conformity to nature is regarded as the main means of civic identity formation. The values of «Nature», «Land», «Labor» and «Small Motherland» based on the principles of humanism and value attitude are considered axiological bases of a rural schoolchild’s civic identity. The local history approach along with the tridimensional global picture principle implies that the foundations of the pupils’ civic identity are laid via examples from the history of their native land, family and home, followed by those from the regional, national and global history. The article proves the museum-pedagogical activity to exert influence on the educational results depending on whether certain methodological approaches to the process of civic identity formation are accounted for when educating pupils of rural educational organizations. The scientific novelty of the article consists in the identification of a possible methodological basis (approaches, principles) of a model for rural schoolchildren’s civic identity formation through museum and pedagogical activities. The materials of the article may be of interest to museum staff, heads of methodological services, rural school administrators, heads of school museums, postgraduate students involved in museum pedagogy or research of civic identity formation.