Verbytska P. Theoretical and methodological fundamentals of school youth civic upbringing in the secondary schools.

Philosophical and historical, psychological and pedagogical analysis of the civic upbringing problem in the context of democratic society development have been researched in the thesis. The analysis of the current state of school youth civic upbringing in secondary schools has been carried out, problems and contradictions of civic upbringing development have been outlined with the aim of actualizing its tasks in the new conditions. The structure of civic competence has been represented as a whole integral quality, a system of interdependent elements. The principles of constructing and the structure of civic upbringing content have been performed. The organisation-pedagogical forms and methods of youth civic upbringing have been characterized. The social-pedagogical conditions of civic upbringing have been defined. On the basis of the analysis of the theoretical and methodological principles there is substantiated and worked out a model of youth civic upbringing in a secondary school and pedagogical means of its realisation. The course of practical introduction of the civic upbringing system worked out by us confirms the effectiveness of using the whole-school approach by means of through realization of the civic upbringing tasks at all levels of educational and upbringing process and components of organizational and pedagogical structure of an educational establishment. Experimental verification of the suggested realization of the worked out system of the school youth civic upbringing has confirmed its efficiency and expediency of using it in secondary educational establishments.