Formation of Spiritual and Intellectual Personality on the Basis National Patriotic Education in After-School Education

The article reveals and characterizes the direction of spiritual and intellectual personality formation on the basis of national-patriotic education in after-school. It is important that after-school is the educational environment where personality formation involves the development of cognitive interest, creative activity, and creative thinking in children and youth; education of the need to independently acquire knowledge and readiness to apply acquired knowledge and skills in practical activities, it is the source of information from which the child draws the most help for national self-determination. After-school is designed to facilitate a child's adaptation to life in modern society, reveal his potential, form a general culture and develop interest in new knowledge that corresponds to his personal interests and abilities. Taking into account the socio-political situation in the country, national-patriotic education, which is based on the historical and cultural values, traditions and customs of our people, is gaining more and more relevance. Through national-patriotic education, the spiritual and intellectual development of the individual as an active citizen of Ukraine, spiritually rich, intellectually developed, morally noble and nationally conscious, is carried out. Having a powerful educational environment, it is extracurricular education that plays a special role in the formation of a spiritual and intellectual personality. The world is changing, approaches to some concepts are also changing, the concept of patriotism is also being transformed in accordance with the realities of today. It is known that each nation creates its own history, state system and its national forms. Therefore, one should always remember that the roots of modernity go back to the deep past. Therefore, every young person should be interested in the "eternal" questions: "Who are we? From where?"... It is necessary to direct the efforts of the young generation to the search for answers to these questions, to awaken in young people the desire to know their land, to understand the significance of the changes that have taken place and are taking place, to comprehensively know who we are in Ukraine, whose children we are and what is our distant past, traditions, culture. The feeling of love for Ukraine, deep respect for age-old folk traditions is an inexhaustible source of spirituality, morality and culture of modern man.