UP-bringing of the new generations of wonners on the basis of heroic traditions of the Stalingrad battle

The article has revealed the educational potential of the heroic traditions of Stalingrad defenders as the basis of patriotic education of the young generations. The author has justified the modern understanding of the winner phenomenon as the successor of heroic traditions of the Motherland defenders with regards to the results of the scientific analysis. The author has indicated the main issues of socialization of the modern youth connected with the enlargement of the information space and virtualization of the human being inner world. The major ideas of the article have resulted from the discussion in Kamyshin on November 19, 2012; the article has proposed the pedagogical logic of patriotic education on the basis of heroic traditions of the Motherland protection and the integrated properties of the process of patriotic up-bringing in the modern educational process.

patriotism, patriotic education, Victory phenomenon, winner image, social memory, heroic traditions, logic of patriotic education