Patriotism in the second shift

How in Russian kindergartens and schools they teach to love their homeland and what a psychologist thinks about it

Thanks to the decree of the Governor of the Republic of Sakha, Iceen Nikolaev, the Day of Yakut schoolchildren will now begin not with the first lesson, but with singing the anthem of Russia. Such a decision was made within the framework of the project “We are the future of Russia!”, And it bears a purely patriotic goal: “To introduce children to the spiritual and moral values ​​and national goals of the country's development.” The initiative in this area is far from the first: to execute the anthem in schools was already offered in Kaluga in 2015 and in Ingushetia in 2014 (it was a monthly event). At the same time, the singing of the anthem is only a small part of the patriotic events that are held in schools and kindergartens. "New" remembered how children are taught to love their homeland.

Open Days in the Russian Guard

The Ministry of Education Russian schools proposed to conduct a lesson for the 100th anniversary of the birth of the designer of small arms Mikhail Kalashnikov. In the classroom, children should try to collect and disassemble the AK-47 for speed, as well as compare domestic machines with an American-made M-16 rifle. They responded to the initiative in Perm, where Kalashnikov quest was arranged for tenth grades of two schools, and in the Tver region an occupation for fifth -graders of the city of Kashin was held by an officer of the Russian Guard. In the lesson, the children were able to find out that there was no weapon better than AK, “to protect their state from uninvited enemies” (so in the original).

The Russian Guard participated in the memorable date and in other formats. In honor of the anniversary of the designer, the military unit of the Sevastopol Office of the Service opened their doors to the schoolchildren. Employees showed children different types of weapons, equipment and armored vehicles. In addition, the Rosgvardists staged “master classes” in hand-to-hand combat and talked about the work of dog handlers. Similar "Open Days" took place in the Stavropol Territory and the Chelyabinsk region .

Preschool troops

In May of this year, 500 kindergartens were marched in the square at the Eternal Flame in Pyatigorsk. For the parade of “preschool troops”, infantrymen, tankers and sailors were put on children, and for some reason they were handed out to them toy American rifles M-16. Veterans, representatives of the administration and the city Duma came to see the event.

The parade was taken by the head of Pyatigorsk Andrei Skripnik, who stated that the event should be made by tradition and hold annually. As the head of the education department of the city administration Natalya Vasyutina added, "the earlier patriotic education begins, the healthier the society."

In the State Duma, however, the initiative was not appreciated not so unambiguously. In a conversation with the Radio Says Moscow, the head of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Tamara Pletnev was outraged by the incident. The woman was embarrassed by the presence of toy weapons in young children. At the same time, she does not see anything bad in the parade. “What come out with flowers is very good. Today in our Tambov children went to lay flowers. This is necessarily, ”the deputy added.

In the last battle for "Uncle Vova"

In June 2018, a scandal erupted in Nizhnevartovsk due to the reporting concert of the pupils of the Domisolka vocal circle. In the matinee in kindergarten No. 68, the kids performed the song of Vyacheslav Antonov “Uncle Vova, you and I”, in which the attachment of Crimea is singing, and the author promises to “return” Alaska.

The leitmotif of the composition is simple: go to the last battle “For Uncle Vova”.

The mother of one of the girls, a journalist of the local television channel N1 Alexander Terikova, who published a video from the concert on Instagram, drew attention to the speech. After she talked about what happened on the Rain TV channel, she was fired from work.

At the same time, the song “Uncle Vova, we are with you” is quite popular in educational institutions. In January last year, it was already performed by students of schools No. 11 in Krasnodar and No. 2 in the village of Staroshkerbinovskaya in the Krasnodar Territory .

Draw the president

A few months before the 2018 presidential elections, among children from 5 to 17 years old, the competition "Children draw President Putin" was held. The competition was organized by a private company - IA RC Infrastructure of Charity. As follows from the rules of the competition, applications for participation must receive from educational institutions, and the work itself must be sent at a tariff of 400 rubles apiece. Voting for the best drawing took place in January in the official group of the VKontakte contest.

It is worth noting that at the moment the group is closed, and competitive work is removed from its albums. Despite this, there were announcements of applications and voting on the wall in the group, and the work of the winners are filled on the organization’s website. Among them are the drawings of the six-year-old Vsevolod Molchanov (where Vladimir Putin feeds Olenenka’s milk) and 13-year-old Veronika Tumanova, who portrayed the president in the form of a naval fleet against the backdrop of the Crimean bridge.

Alexander Kolmanovsky

psychologist

- Real patriotism is a love for the homeland. Meanwhile, in all sociological surveys, when children are asked what their patriotism is, they are not talking about love, but about pride: “I am proud of the history of the country, its achievements, outstanding figures.” Moreover, the difference between love and pride is very important, because pride is self -affirmation and competition. There is always an aggressive beginning behind this. Love cannot be raised by administrative methods, on the contrary, it can be suppressed. After all, it is impossible to instill in administrative methods a love of food or for some person.

Children perceive patriotic events differently. For someone they cause "allergies" as something imposed from the outside. However, for some, this really causes excitement and enthusiasm, especially if the event is associated with the military aspect of patriotism. A demonstration of military power, remarkable weapons, extracted soldiers gives young citizens a sense of security.

Weapons parades raise in children the desire to use this weapon.

If a person is instilled in any skill, he has a desire to apply it. In addition, such shares are brought up by herd feeling and aggression.

You can raise the level of patriotism at the school level in a different way. It is important to remember that patriotism is a directly emotional attachment to the realities associated with the country and its culture. A person can be sorry to emigrate when he is attached to local traditions, customs and language, to history and literature. It really needs to be developed.