The civic and cultural identity of a person is an integral part of the existence of any human community and a marker of its national, political and cultural subjectivity. In view of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war, the issue of civic and national-cultural identity of high school students studying abroad is becoming extremely important for our society. In fact, the martial law in the country, the socio-cultural and educational space of the countries of forced residence simultaneously have a noticeable direct impact on the attraction to or distance from the national and cultural identity of young Ukrainians living abroad.
The purpose of the article is to assess the current state of civic and cultural identity of Ukrainian high school students abroad in the context of the public demand for the formation of civic and national consciousness in times of war.
The article uses general scientific methods: classification, abstraction, comparison, formalisation, analogy, deduction, induction, synthesis, analysis. general scientific and special methods, in particular, In the analytical part of the study, we used the methodology of an interdisciplinary approach to form a holistic picture of the research. In order to determine the optimal methodology for empirical sociological research, a comparative analysis of the data available on the subjective perception of students and parents of the peculiarities of the educational process in the host country and other important factors was conducted. The sociological study of the attitude of Ukrainian schoolchildren to the influence of the foreign educational environment and factors of personal choice in the near future was conducted by an online survey using a questionnaire in Google Form online; the graphical and analytical method was used to illustrate the main results of the sociological study.
As a result of the sociological study, it was found that the socio-cultural orientations of an individual in the process of studying abroad are not unreasonably associated with the significant influence of the educational and social environment of the countries of temporary residence. The actual factors of influence and modifications of the dimensions of the socio-cultural identity of Ukrainian high school students abroad are identified. The conclusions substantiate the importance of the state and society’s attention to the identified problems and the actual directions of measures to adjust these processes in view of their importance for the post-war Ukrainian society.