CREATION OF DIGITAL SPACE IN THE PROCESS OF FORMING NATIONAL SOLIDARITY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

The formation of national solidarity among high school students is one of the priority tasks of national-patriotic education, taking into account the today’s processes in Ukraine and all around the world. The article analyzes the peculiarities of using the opportunities of the digital space and the priority directions in the process of raising national solidarity among high school students.
The purpose of the research is to determine the most effective and efficient ways of working with high school students in the digital space for the education of national solidarity. A complex of research methods was used: analysis of existing literature and research on the issue, synthesis and systematization of materials, generalization and comparison, system-structural analysis in order to determine the theoretical foundations of the research.
The importance of the full use of the digital space in the educational process is revealed taking into account the current trends in the development of society, and the complicated situation in Ukraine nowadays. The areas of work with high school students that can be most effective in interacting with them in the digital space are highlighted. The vectors of interaction with youth which most take into account the age-related characteristics and interests of high school students and are effective in the education process, are characterized. The peculiarities of the adaptation of traditional forms and methods of education to the digital space are revealed, in such a way as to preserve their effectiveness and transfer the possibilities of their application to digital platforms, which will allow in modern conditions to achieve the highest possible efficiency of educational processes. Moreover, the peculiarities of using social networks, which due to their popularity today are one of those environments that significantly influence the formation of personal orientations and worldviews among young people, are analyzed.
The practical significance of the study is that its material can be used by lecturers, teachers, researchers, and students in the organizing educational work in institutions of general education, special education, vocational and technical education, as well as other institutions focused on educational interaction with high school students in the process education of national solidarity of high school students along with a component of the complex of national-patriotic education in the digital space.