Patriotism in the system of value orientations of students: the possibilities of improving Russian state policy

The purpose of the article is to study patriotism in the system of value orientations of students, as well as tools for forming patriotic consciousness in the perspective of improving the state policy of Russia. The value core of student youth includes mainly intangible personal values; patriotism is included in the system "We are the feelings". The vulnerabilities are proposed to be leveled by changing the conceptual approaches, technologies for organizing civil and patriotic education; the complexity of the impact of various socialization agents is important. Public policy should be adjusted through monitoring of the federal cross-section as well as through the analysis of private cases of educational institutions