The article presents an iterative process of studying the search for ways to improve the effectiveness of education in the field of life safety and one of its results is a structural and functional model for the formation of a safety culture in children of preschool and primary school age. The parameters and criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of educational activities aimed at the formation of a safety culture at the levels of preschool and primary general education are identified. The description and results of diagnostic measures carried out as part of experimental work on approbation of the author’s model are given. The conclusion is made about its effectiveness, the revealed regularities.

The article analyzes the characteristic features of changes in the functioning of the pedagogical systems of the military units of the Russian Guard in the period from 2017 to the present. The problematic and contradictory nature of these changes is noted. The positive and negative aspects of solving educational tasks are revealed. Ideas are put forward about the organization of a criterion system for evaluating the pedagogical system of a military unit.

The article publishes the results of an experimental study aimed at improving the efficiency of the process of upbringing of social activism of students of modern universities, using the example of FSBEI HE “Kaluga State University named after K. E. Tsiolkovski” (KSU), Kaluga Branch of the Russian State Agrarian University — Moscow Agricultural Academy K. A. Timiryazev, Kaluga branch of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.