Keyword: «multicultural environment»

In modern Russia, one of the priorities of national importance is the formation of young people tolerance and the ability to live in a multicultural environment. The article analyzes the problem of tolerance in a multicultural environment and provides recommendations to the future teachers needed in their future professional activity.

The article focuses on the topical ways of attaining a higher level of tolerance of schoolchildren towards other cultures during school practice of international students in the school specializing in English. The school environment in such types of schools is seen as a competitive advantage for creating a multicultural context in which pedagogical school practice is organized within the framework of school-university cooperation.

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.

Changes in the labor market and the priority of human capital formation give universities a new task – professional development of the student, implying skills of working in a multicultural environment, expanded digital competences. The increase in the share of foreign students and the difficulties associated with their adaptation and improvement of the quality of training, also increases the importance of the formation of multicultural digital space of the university. The aim of this study is to analyze the potential of the multicultural digital space of the university in the context of the growth of the digital component of the educational process. The methodological basis of the study includes methods of the general scientific level (inductive deductive analysis, concretization and generalization) and methods of the specific scientific level (systematization and generalization of concepts). The study analyzed the concepts of the multicultural environment and multicultural space, and compared them. On the basis of the analysis, the article shows the importance of using the potential of multicultural educational space at the present stage of Russian higher education development, highlights its essential characteristics. The author defines the stages of digitalization in accordance with the stages of computer development, examines the problems of digitalization of education, finds out the factors that determine the need to use the potential of the multicultural educational space, shows the relationship between the digital and multicultural spaces, the prospects of the multicultural digital space use. She also notes the components of the multicultural digital space, which are important for the development of the multicultural digital personality: multicultural teachers of “digital university”, multiculturally oriented students, centers for multicultural education in combination with centers for the development of digital literacy at the university. The analysis of the stages of digitalization development from the point of view of the development of computers, the problems of digitalization form the basis of the theoretical significance of the study. The identified components of the multicultural digital space, which can be used by universities to develop the potential of these spaces, have practical value.