Abstract:
The article theoretically substantiates the theoretical and methodological aspects of national-patriotic education of youth in extracurricular education institutions of Ukraine, which allows to determine the prospects of their use in the conditions of modernization of the education system and preservation of the best traditions and creation of modern standards of extracurricular education. It is established that in modern conditions the activity of extracurricular education institutions is an actual means of forming positive motives for the educational and cognitive activity of young people and national-patriotic education of young people. The aim of article is to determine the theoretical and methodological foundations of national and patriotic education of youth in extracurricular education institutions. To achieve the goal, theoretical analysis of scientific works, synthesis, comparison and generalization of approaches to the definition of theoretical aspects of national-patriotic education of youth in extracurricular education institutions were used. It has been proven that the national patriotic education of children and youth is a complex systematic and purposeful activity of state authorities, public organizations, families, educational institutions, and other social institutions regarding the formation of a high patriotic consciousness, a sense of loyalty, love for the Ukraine in the young generation, concern for the well-being of their people, readiness to fulfill their civic and constitutional duty to protect the national interests, integrity, independence of Ukraine, and support its establishment as a legal, democratic, and social state. It has been proven that extracurricular work is an informal parallel education capable of quickly and mobility responding to changes in the social environment
