Abstract
<jats:p>The relevance of this study is substantiated by the high social and personal significance of sports and patriotic education and insufficient development of this topic. The definition of the cognitive component as it applies to sports and patriotic education of adolescents is given. The chapter demonstrates the importance of this component as a basis for the formation of motivational and value attitudes in students. The results of a diagnostic study of the level of patriotic qualities in adolescents related to the cognitive component are presented. A range of topics that can form the content of the cognitive component of sports and patriotic education has been determined; the main forms of education and training corresponding to these topics have been selected. It is clarified that, taken in isolation, the indexes reflecting the development of patriotic qualities in an individual based on the cognitive component are insufficient for determining the overall level of patriotism and should be supplemented by data obtained through testing the level of patriotic qualities based on axiological and activity-based criteria.</jats:p>