The article, proceeding from the social and cultural realities of modern Kazakhstan as a
multinational state, actualizes the problem of national education of the students, which is aimed at
the development of the national consciousness of a person. The author presents the new model of
national education developed by a number of scientists from the Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical
University. The components of this model are treated in the context of its three most important
elements: ethnic, civil, and nationwide. The significance and content of each component, as well as
the main methodological provisions, on which the authors rested in the course of its development,
are substantiated. A feature of this model is that it involves the purposeful work on the development
of the national consciousness of the students from their ethnic socialization and identification withinВЕСТНИК КазНПУ им. Абая, серия «Педагогические науки», the civil, and from it to the nationwide one focused on the formation of an intellectual and
competitive nation