After gaining independence in Lithuania (1990), the problem of retaining national individuality still remains a point at issue. National self-consciousness is a distinctive aspect of social self-consciousness. It is related to national identity - an individual being with the same ethnic community, considering it his/her nation. In the view of structure, national sel-consciousness acts as the unit of three components - cognitive, emotional and controlling. Development of Lithuanian national self-consciousness is related to its upbringing. Especially favourable conditions for upbringing national self – consciousness are at the teen-age, by consolidating and defining national identity of a person. Historically, in order to form, strengthen and consolidate mature national self-consciousness, attention to the national language, culture and education was paid. Possibilities of upbringing national self-consciousness are pointed out in the contemporary educational documents as well. National self-consciousness upbringing of junior guides by means of art works on national topics, is a scientific problem at issue. A guide is a person, that presents country, region, city, all the national history and cultural objects to tourists. Informal activity plays especially great role in upbringing self-consciousness of junior guides. Presumptions for national self-consciousness upbringing are laid in the art classes, by integrating principals of tourism and regional studies, stimulating... [to full text]