The article presents the results of an all-Russian study of civic-patriotic values in a modern school. The psychological and pedagogical conditions for the formation of patriotic and civic values have been analyzed. In order to find the factors that determine this situation, an analysis of the patriotic values of schoolchildren was carried out, including the following sections: objects of identification; image of the Motherland; life goals and patriotic values; life position and socially significant activity; preferences and plans.

The article actualizes the role of civic identity in the process of personal and professional development, determines the importance of culture for the formation of civic ideas and patriotic feelings. The article presents the results of a comparative empirical study of students of psychological and pedagogical areas of training from Russia and the People’s Republic of China, where the subject of comparison was verbal and figurative ideas about the Motherland and patriotism.

The article presents the results of a survey of teachers in five regions of the Russian Federation, conducted as part of a study of the realities and prospects of civic-patriotic education in school. It is obvious that the professional competence of teachers in the methods and means of such education, as well as their own ideological position regarding citizenship and patriotism, are the most important factors in the success of educational influences and the formation of moral ideas of modern schoolchildren.

The article analyzes and compares the concepts of “tutor”, ”mentor” and ”curator”, the features of tutoring in secondary vocational education are determined, the experience of digital tutoring in college is conceptualized, the prospects for building models of psychological and pedagogical support for the individualization of secondary vocational education in the context of digitalization are determined.