Keyword: «ethnic tolerance»

In Russia with its multinational population, the relevance of theoretical and practical study of the conditions for multicultural education of children in preschool educational organizations is due to the need to develop the national community of Russian citizens. The problem of the formation of ethnic tolerance and interethnic communication takes an important place among many problems associated with preschool education. The renewal of modern Russian education should be accompanied everywhere by an intensive search for ways to improve the pedagogical process in a multicultural educational environment. Pre-school education, aimed at solving the problem of the formation of ethnic tolerance among older preschoolers in a multicultural educational environment, is an integral part of this process. The modern system of Russian education needs now teachers who are able to resolve interethnic related conflicts in order to eliminate national isolation, interethnic tension and to prevent the aggravation of ethnic phobias among preschool children, which directly depends on the formation of ethnic tolerance between peers by teachers in preschool educational organizations. This factor determines the importance of teachers' readiness to develop ethnic tolerance in older preschoolers. The purpose of our research is to work out and test in practice a model of the readiness of the future teacher of preschool education to develop ethnic tolerance in older preschoolers. Research methods: theoretical (analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature), empirical (experiment). The theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that it reveals the importance of the development of ethnic tolerance in older preschool children; clarifies the concept of teachers' readiness for the development of ethnic tolerance; describes the structure and content characteristics of the readiness of the future teacher of preschool education for the development of ethnic tolerance; a model is developed to increase the level of readiness of future preschool education teachers for the development of ethnic tolerance among older preschool children. The practical significance is in determining the psychological and pedagogical conditions for the formation of the readiness of future preschool education teachers to develop ethnic tolerance in older preschoolers. The developed model can be used in the process of professional development of teaching staff through institutes of advanced training.