Defense of the Motherland as an interdisciplinary problem in science and school practice: results of socio-pedagogical research

The article poses four fundamental questions, the answers to which will allow us to answer the question stated in the title of the article: Who is responsible at school for the formation of the competence to protect the Motherland, patriotic culture: the first question: is the problem of protecting the Motherland subject, or it is built to be considered as an interdisciplinary, intersubject, integrative problem, in the solution of which all subjects of the school curriculum will be involved; the second question is how to organize the educational (upbringing) process of forming a patriotic culture at school? the third question is related to the assessment of the achievement of the predicted result – the formation of patriotic culture; and finally, the fourth question is which of the teachers is responsible for the formation of the competence to defend the Motherland: this is the teacher of a separate subject, for example, the subject of the «Fundamentals of security and protection of the Motherland», or the entire teaching staff of the school? The article attempts to answer the questions posed from the point of view of scientific publications in philosophy, psychology and pedagogy, a socio-pedagogical study of the attitude of teachers to the introduction of the updated course «Fundamentals of security and protection of the Motherland», to the problem of the formation of patriotic culture and experience of pedagogical activity in the field of patriotic education.