PERSONALITY’S PATRIOTIC CONSCIOUSNESS DEVELOPMENT
The article substantiates the topicality of addressing the problem of a personality’s patriotic consciousness development. Connection between the existence of the Native Land and the Home Country and a personality is affirmed. Scientific novelty of the research is in the formulation of the basic principles and the definition of the key means of patriotic education and self-education as a process of patriotic consciousness development. The author’s conclusions are based on the Native Land and the Home Country understanding as spiritual categories, the analysis of the historical and modern socio-cultural trends of development, systematization and results of philosophical and scientific research.