Commemorative practices in education and construction of cultural identity

The article outlines contemporary methods of constructing cultural identity through commemorative practices reproduced in modern Russian education. The author considers the logic and processes in modern education in the context of the general model of the crisis of culture and the threat to social anomie. The methodological basis of interpretation is memory studies. The article analyzes the peculiarities of memory policy implementation in education. The article concludes on the tasks that teachers address: to form a value attitude to the history of their country through an emotional experience, creating the foundation for civil and cultural identity. By the example of commemorative practices devoted to the events of the Great Patriotic War, the author reveals the duality of attitude to the historical event. The author also states that participation in various commemorative practices is an effective mechanism for the formation of identity through acquiring social experience in the unity of sensation, knowledge, and action.