Civic education of youth by means of environmental and cultural protective initiatives

Abstract

We reveal the essence and specificity of civic education of youth in the context of functioning of cultural protective and environmental initiatives. We identify the features of profile-oriented social and educational work. We characterize the ways of involving young people in innovative project activities focused on civic education, the ecology and the protection of cultural heritage. Project activities are positioned as a special type of social creativity, the strategic goal of which is to create a well-organized community of initiative citizens. We give the characteristic of the activity of youth and civic initiatives centers; youth banks of social initiatives and business in-cubators. We show the role of noncommercial organizations in the development of youth volun-teering. We analyze the tasks and prospects of holding festivals and competitions of civic initia-tives, fairs of projects and quests. We summarize the activities experience of civic initiatives of young people of environmental and ecocultural orientation, as well as the work of virtual leisure communities for the integration of volunteers (on the example of the Moscow and Saint Petersburg community of bloggers). We systematize data on the most popular environmental and ecocultural projects that have become widespread in Russia. We analyze the features of implementation of projects “Ecobeg”, “Plogging”, “Tom Sawyer Fest”; we also reveal their city historic preservation orientation, focus on the development of healthy lifestyle and charity.