Olga Nikolaeva¹*, Marina Mefodeva², Inna Korneva³, Yulia Kozlova⁴, Inna Sokolova⁵,
¹PhD, Associate professor, Kazan Federal University, Russia olga-kh@rambler.ru
²Senior lecturer, Kazan Federal University, Russia anjali@inbox.ru
³Senior lecturer, Kazan Federal University, Russia favouriteworkk@mail.ru
⁴Lecturer, Kazan Federal University, Russia julia-may16@yandex.ru
⁵PhD, Senior lecturer, Kazan Federal University, Russia inna.academ@yandex.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract

Education is an indivisible unity of training and nurturing. The task of the education system today is not only the formation of the individual with a broad outlook, developed intellect, and a high level of knowledge but also the formation of a spiritual individual whose future will depend on its intellectual, political, and cultural level. First of all, the spiritual personality is the result of long, persistent and purposeful process of self-organization, family and community education and awareness. A spiritual person is a citizen and a patriot with strong national character, is responsible for the assigned work, able to work and adapt to changing social conditions. It is a person who is kind and sympathetic, respectful towards childhood, the old, family values, a healthy way of life, etc. This is a person with a sense of national pride and national consciousness.There is a tendency to strengthening the national identity, to the revival of cultural and historical traditions and to the sustainable development in modern Russia. Its future depends on the young generation readiness to the worthy answers to the historical challenges, readiness to defend the interests of the multinational state. Moral formation of children and youth, preparing them for independent life is the most important component of the society and state development. The Concept of modernization of Russian education points out that nurturing should become an essential component of pedagogical activity integrated into the overall process of learning and development. The most important task of education is the formation of students ' civil responsibility and legal consciousness, spirituality and culture, initiative, independence, tolerance, ability to successful socialization in the society. In light of this, special attention in the article is paid to the task of consolidation of the society on the basis of democratic values and civic patriotism. For this reason the system of moral and civil education with a strong time-tested traditions, needs to be improved in accordance with the new realities. So the authors offer some programs of moral and civil education that Russian teachers use at schools as they are the fundamental ideological basis for the education and development of children.