CIVIL-PATRIOTIC ACTIVITIES OF STUDENT CONSTRUCTION TEAMS of Higher Educational Institutions of Kursk (60-80-ies of XX century)
Patriotism never lose its relevance in any country. Patriotic education begins with the very first steps and is an important part of the educational process. Scope of the article is patriotic education of students in Kursk universities in 1960-1980s. The article investigates different forms of heroic-patriotic activities of student construction teams, trekking and motocross to places of military glory, meeting with war and labor veterans. Military-patriotic work, as the leading form of civic education in student construction teams of the Kursk region. At present, the scientific community, including historians, sociologists, psychologists, strongly expressed opinion about the necessity of complex study of various phenomena and processes in the field of the student education, both in the past and the present, in the perspective of new methodological approach. This problem is relevant to connection with the process of reforming the higher education system, adapting Russian university students to the new requirements and changing conditions, the organization of educational activities. Therefore, historical analysis of experience of public organizations, student construction teams, created in 1960-1980 years in the Kursk universities, for heroic and patriotic education should be widely used by youth leaders of today. Within the framework of the participation of students of higher educational institutions of Kursk in heroic and patriotic work used various forms: the patronage of monuments and fraternal graves, over the war and labor veterans and their families, the organization of meetings with the Great Patriotic War heroes. Student construction teams KGPI, KSMI KPI and actively supported the initiative of the regional Komsomol organization "In the work, as in the battle." On the territory of Kursk region they constructed and restored hundreds of monuments of military glory.