Commemorative practices in the context of the formation of traditional spiritual and moral values of students

the purpose of the article is to describe the results of the study of commemorative practices of civil society in connection with the implementation of state memory policy. The author notes that state memory policy is aimed at counteracting the falsification of history, strengthening citizenship and patriotism and includes national and state symbols, official approaches to the interpretation of historical events, as well as regional, socio-cultural, generational and other fields of commemoration, within which the understanding of significant historical achievements of society and the state occurs. Based on the conducted research, the author came to the conclusion that organized forms of public commemoration and personal testimonies, memories of the historical process are often in confrontation, challenging the understanding of the meaning of a particular historical phenomenon. Practical application of the article’s conclusions: to develop and test in the educational process didactic means of improving the process of developing in students the ability to resist destructive information influence, protect historical truth, resist distortions and mythologization of historical heritage, and falsification of history.

politics of memory, commemorative practices, historical memory, historical consciousness