MINI-ESSAY IN A UNIFIED STATE EXAMINATION IN SOCIAL SCIENCE AS INDICATOR OF FORMATION OF HISTORICAL MEMORY OF STUDYING YOUTH
The article is devoted to the issue of the formation of the historical memory of students. The subject of analysis is the miniessays of school graduates in the exam in social studies. Based on the use of the content analysis method, the article shows the possibilities of writing a mini-essay on social studies, firstly, as a way of assessing the level of formation of the historical memory of students, and secondly, as a means of preserving and reproducing it. As a result of a sociological study, the peculiarities of the use of knowledge of the historical past by students in mini-essays on social studies were revealed, as well as a brief analysis of the content of this knowledge is presented. The author pays special attention to the possibility of using such practice of assessing the formation of historical memory of students in studying the process of forming the historical memory of the whole people.