Keyword: «acceptance of others»

Interethnic relations in the educational environment are characterized by complex social processes that include interaction, mutual understanding and interpersonal relations among students of different nationalities. Therefore, educational organizations require systemic psychological and pedagogical support of the process of interethnic interaction, so that relations are established not on suspicion, isolation and hostility, but on the basis of a desire for cooperation and mutual understanding. All this determined the purpose of the study: to theoretically substantiate and experimentally examine the interethnic relations of older adolescents in the conditions of the multicultural environment of the educational organization. The study was divided into three stages: search and preparatory, experimental, control and generalizing. The following research methods were used: analysis of scientific literature, generalization, synthesis, experiment, observation, test, and survey. The following methods used for studying interethnic relations of older adolescents are also presented: diagnostics "Acceptance of others" (W. Fey); express questionnaire "Index of Tolerance" (G. Soldatova, O. Kravtsova, O. Khukhlaev, L. Shaigerova); method "Diagnostics of interpersonal relations" (T. Leary). To calculate and test the hypothesis of the research work, we took the Mann-Whitney U-test. All methods were selected in accordance with the age of the subjects. The experimental study was carried out on the basis of the "South Ural Multidisciplinary College" (metallurgical complex) in the city of Chelyabinsk. 26 1st-year students aged 16-17 years trained in the specialty "Processing of metals by pressure" took part in it. Three used methods showed that adolescent migrants and adolescent citizens of the Russian Federation have practically the same level of interethnic relations and tolerance. According to the results of mathematical and statistical calculation using the first method, the level of acceptance of others among adolescent citizens of the Russian Federation is not lower than that among adolescent migrants. According to the second method: the level of tolerance among adolescent migrants is not lower than the level of tolerance among adolescent citizens of the Russian Federation. There are no statistically significant differences in the level of acceptance of others between adolescent citizens of the Russian Federation and adolescent migrants. Both categories of adolescents have an identical level of tolerance, despite their ethnic diversity.