A Comparative Study of Chinese and Belarusian Researchers’ Ideas on the Process, Methods and Forms of Patriotism and Civicism Development in University Students

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to analyse and summarize Chinese and Belarusian studies addressing the problem of understanding the process, methods and forms of patriotism and civicism development in young people. According to the undertaken literature analysis, there is a terminological ambiguity regarding the conceptualization of the process of patriotism and civicism development in students. The process of patriotism and civicism development is indicated in several terminological ways as 1) as civil-patriotic upbringing; 2) as two separate areas: civil upbringing and patriotic upbringing;3) as a process of civil or civil-patriotic socialization; 4) as civil education. The literature analysis also shows that there are many similarities between China and Belarus in the understanding civic-patriotism development process. The article provides the author’s empirical data regarding Belarusian university lecturers’ understanding differences between the mentioned terms. As the authors think, the survey results may have been caused by the terminological mixup existing in the academic discourse.