Fostering Patriotic Culture of Primary Schoolchildren in Kazakhstan

Abstract

Policy on fostering patriotism is a top concern for any country; thus, defining effective forms and methods aimed at developing a set of values and cultural principles among younger generations and building respect for their own country is of utmost importance. The purpose of the study is to provide the theoretical and methodological support for the formation of the patriotic culture in primary school and to examine the effectiveness of the model of primary schoolchildren’s patriotic culture formation. The study employed a critical analysis of literature and a pretest-posttest experimental research design. The literature review proved that the formation of patriotic culture should be implemented based on a well-planned and purposeful pedagogical activity aimed at the formation of patriotic feelings and patriotic consciousness in schoolchildren and allowed us to theoretically justify and methodologically support the pedagogical conditions for fostering the patriotic culture in primary schoolchildren. The pretest-posttest experiment results proved the effectiveness of the implemented model in the improvement of primary schoolchildren’s levels of patriotic culture components. Our findings provide teachers and methodologists with evidence for feasible and achievable targeted interventions such as implementing the systematic and purposeful pedagogical activity to foster students’ patriotic culture at school.