Russian Journal of Education and Psychology (Apr 2022)

FORMATION OF INTERETHNIC TOLERANCE THROUGH EDUCATIONAL SITUATION AT THE STAGE OF ADAPTATION OF STUDENTS TO THE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY

  • Tatiana N. Sinenko,
  • Olga A. Zalipaeva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12731/2658-4034-2022-13-2-48-61
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 2
pp. 48 – 61

Abstract

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Background. Political and socio-economic transformations taking place in the modern world, an orientation of Russian education to humanization and democratization impose a number of requirements on a specialist professional training quality at a university. Particularly in the modern labor community there are requirements regarding the readiness of a future specialist to carry out interpersonal interaction in professional activity in a multicultural, multinational and multi-confessional society. For the higher professional education of the Russian Federation the task of training a specialist with the ability to interpersonal interaction in professional activities (including empathy and interethnic tolerance) is of prime importance. The purpose of the work is to describe the educational situation aimed at the formation of interethnic tolerance among students at the stage of adaptation to the educational environment of the university. Methods. In the course of the study, a theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature of the problem was carried out. It helped us to clarify the degree of relevance of the problem being studied. The method of observation and pedagogical experience analysis allowed us to describe the educational situation aimed at the interethnic tolerance formation. The results of the study. Interethnic tolerance is considered to be a manifestation of the future specialist’s ability to interpersonal interaction in professional activities. The levels of interethnic tolerance formation among university students are given: amorphous-fragmentary, interiorization-reflexive and activity-holistic. In the article the educational situation “Adaptation” is described which is aimed at the formation of interethnic tolerance among students of multicultural educational groups the period of adaptation to the educational environment of the university.. Practical implications. The article will be useful for lecturers, curators of study groups, specialists in educational work with students, including tutors.

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