The essence, structure, and content of forming the school’s way of life based on civic traditions of Russian society

The research aims to determine the essence, structure, and content of the school’s way of life based on the civic traditions of Russian society. The article presents an analysis of the current civic traditions of Russian society that should be formed in schools; substantiates the essence of the concept of the identification potential of a civic tradition, substantiates and characterizes its invariance; formulates pedagogical conditions for the formation of Russian civic identity of schoolchildren based on the identification potential of civic tradition and substantiates their effectiveness using the example of specific educational organizations. The scientific novelty of the research: pedagogical conditions for the implementation of the identification potential of civic traditions in the procedural and technological support of the formation of the school’s way of life space are identified and substantiated. As a result of the research, the essence of the phenomenon of “civic tradition” is determined; the essential characteristics of civic traditions of Russian society are established; the structure of civic tradition is identified and substantiated; the importance of the school’s way of life as a specific space for the formation of civic traditions is substantiated.