The education system in the Russian Federation as a mechanism of forming the image of the modern Russian state in the youth's consciousness
In the introduction the increasing role of the education system in the conditions of modern domestic and foreign political conditions and the global trends of political development are substantiated; the theoretical-methodological aspects of the problem are revealed: it is done through the prism of the basic concepts (socio-political communication, social movement, official narrative, imagery) that constitute the conceptual framework of the article, the theoretical mechanism of the effect of education on the minds of young people is presented. The aim of the research is to study the specifics of the communicative impact of the education system on the perception of the modern Russian state by young people; to reveal the features of the state reflection in the minds of schoolchildren. The main part of the article presents the data of content analysis of normative documents and speeches of officials; school textbooks, on the basis of which the key concepts, basic concepts, thematic and logical blocks are presented and on which the communicative strategy is based; the author reveals the narrative image of the state. A comparative analysis of the content of the official discourse of power in the field of historical and civil issues and content of the school textbook is given and the conclusion about the presence of a common semantic core, including such concepts and principles as the historical past, memory, respect, protection, homeland (Russia, Fatherland). The projective drawings of school students, which allowed to study the unconscious components of the perception of the state, are obtained. An attempt is made to correlate the narrative image of the state with the visual aspects of students' perception of the main Institute of the political system in order to identify the character of the impact of education on mass consciousness. On the basis of the psychological interpretation of schoolchildren's drawings, a correlation analysis of the narrative image of the state and the visual political object under study is carried out in order to identify the nature of the impact of education on the consciousness of young people. It is concluded that the image is the result of a complex impact of psychological, cognitive and social mechanisms; a significant role in the formation of ideas, belongs to socialization, social factors, together with knowledge, values about the studied political objectlaid in the process of learning and education. The conclusion is made about the impossibility of consolidating society on the basis of only one historical memory, the need to identify young people with the future, cultivate the idea of unity based on creative joint activities as an integration basis, and form a positive-active political culture of young people.