Abstract
The article is devoted to philosophical comprehension of teaching historical disciplines in non-profile universities in the context of formation of historical knowledge as the basis of national identity of modern youth. It is shown that the replacement of the academic discipline «History of Kazakhstan» with «Modern History of Kazakhstan» plays a dual role:on the one hand, the standard approach in the academic discipline does not develop creative thinking; on the other hand, the factual material based on political education does not contribute to the activation of historical thinking. Besides, globalization, the world wide web, and many other factors influence the marginalization of consciousness. The authors actualize the updating of the concept in this area, with the need to improve the changes in the academic discipline. One of the authors of Nugman B.G. offers the author's version of the academic discipline with explanations