WAYS OF FORMING CIVIC COMPETENCE IN STUDENTS OF GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION DURING AFTER-HOURS

Abstract

The article focuses on the ways of forming civic competence of students of a general secondary education institution during after-hours. The relevance of the research problem is formulated. It is determined that the regulatory and legislative framework in the field of education, State Standards are aimed at forming a competent personality. The competency-based philosophy of education updates the requirements for the content of teaching, upbringing and development of schoolchildren, the definition of a group of expected results, including in the civic and historical educational field. The Concept of the New Ukrainian School presents the educational process through the lens of cross-cutting education implemented via the content lines of the State Standards, which transforms approaches to teachers’ after-hours activities. An analysis of recent research and publications is conducted. It is emphasized that the scientist-pedagogue V. Sukhomlynsky focused on the upbringing of patriotic feelings, respect for the native language, the world around him, emphasizing that this process should be activated from childhood. Modern pedagogical science and practice, taking into account the views of classical teachers, focuses on the formation of a citizen with European values, based on Ukrainian traditions that characterize Ukrainian culture and identity. The scientific content of the concept of “civic competence” is analyzed. It is found that the definitional dynamics of the development of the concept of “civic competence” is being improved and supplemented with new content. The purpose of the article is to outline the ways of forming civic competence of students of a general secondary education institution in the process of extracurricular activities. To implement it, the specifics of the formation of civic competence in general secondary education institutions are clarified, the author’s vision of its development in modern conditions in extracurricular time is formulated, and the role of the history teacher in this process is indicated. The essence of the civic and historical field, which is aimed at obtaining civic education, is determined. End-to-end education according to the Concept of the New Ukrainian School provides for extracurricular activities in the institutions of general secondary education to correlate with the tasks of the educational process, which includes a comprehensive system of methods and techniques aimed at the development of the personality. This allowed the author to determine ways of forming civic competence during after-hours for students of primary and basic schools. Among them, the following are named: thematic conversations with multimedia support, hours of “communication” with a book; excursions to the most important places of one’s own region, to castles, fortresses, Ukrainian folk games, projects, morning circles (primary school); cognitive conversations on historical topics about the present and past of Ukraine, discussions, debates, lectures on historical topics and others (basic). The importance of forming key competencies is indicated‑fluency in the state language; the ability to communicate in the native (if different from the state) and foreign languages. The role of the history teacher in the process of forming these competencies, which is the basis for the development of a civic position, is emphasized.