Humanities Studios: Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy

The article actualizes the necessity of purposeful formation of patriotic values of students of agricultural institutions of professional higher education. The author presents an author’s understanding of the essence of the concept of «patriotic values» as significant ideas about the Motherland, national interests and ideals formed by the public consciousness and recognized by a person, which are embodied in all spheres of the state’s life and are expressed in a positive emotional attitude to the culture of the native land at the level of manifestation of a sense of involvement and love for it, devotion to it, pride and responsibility for it. Based on this and taking into account the context of the specifics of the professional activity of agrarians, it is determined that the core of their patriotic values is love for their native land. It is stated that in the context of the total immersion of modern students of agricultural specialties in the virtual world, there is an underestimation of the beauty and value of the native land, the importance of agricultural labor. In this regard, the essence of the category «native land» and its conceptual significance in the axiology of agrarian patriotism in terms of naturalistic, synergistic, anthropological, figurative and symbolic, mythological and esoteric semantics are revealed. Attention is focused on the opposition of the concepts of «own land» and «foreign land», which helps to clarify the axiological predicates of the attitude of farmers to their native land as an important factor in the formation of their patriotic feelings based on reverence for it. The content and expediency of using historiographical, artistic and aesthetic, folklore and other axiological and patriotic means of educating the value attitude and love for the native land in the process of professional training and in the extracurricular activities of agricultural students are substantiated. It is proved that involvement in local history work, realization of the educational potential of native language training, holding traditional folk festivals, collective creative activities related to the native land, peasant labor, economic customs and rituals, allows to form patriotic values of students of agricultural institutions of professional higher education in a comprehensive and effective manner

patriotic values, agricultural students, professional higher education, love for the native land, axiological and patriotic means of education