Studying high school students abroad in the dimensions of civic and cultural identity

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.