Keyword: «multiculturalism»

Russia is a peculiar mosaic made ​​up of many peoples. They vary in size and intensity of internal relations, on economic and social characteristics, the level of political organization, language and culture, spiritual temperament and national character. In this context, the problem of multicultural education is of particular importance and complexity of a multi-ethnic Russian society.

The study focuses on the problems of aliens' adaptation in foreign countries; on challenges they face after moving from other countries; on process of adjustment to different living standards and culture. Interest in the problem of adaptation in other cultures got practical value in 1950 s. This was due to the increase in migration, and also students and experts exchange between countries in that period. The number of people going to study abroad (schools, colleges, universities) is increasing year by year nowadays. Authors have analysed such phenomenons as "cultural shock" and “acculturation” to look at nature, to find the reasons and consequences of the intercultural adaptation of foreigners who moved to Russia and became residences.

The scientific idea of the possibility of developing the personality of future bachelors in the process of studying humanities, natural sciences, and special disciplines by means of multicultural content was developed and tested in practice on the example of materials from the Tyumen region – the former Tobolsk province. The possibilities of the material about Siberian crafts and crafts as the basis of ethnic and multinational communications, traditions, selection, which is based on the principles of didactics: scientific, accessible, interdisciplinary, systematic. The multicultural material for different areas of training in the study of the basic and variable part of the disciplines in different directions is proposed.

Modernization of higher education opens up prospects for the use of mobile technologies to improve the quality of training for specialists in the field of socio-cultural activities. In addition, the priority tasks of the training programs are: providing the content of academic disciplines with the cognitive component of the interethnic communication culture, building up communicative and digital competences. The authors examine the problem of verifying the effectiveness of the mobile technologies use in training of specialists in the field of socio-cultural activities. The purpose of the work is to study the peculiarities of the organization of practical activities for managers of socio-cultural activities in the development of mobile applications for the formation of their communicative tolerance. Scientific novelty: the potential of mobile applications with socio-cultural content for training in-demand specialists of the digital society is substantiated. Theoretical significance – the identified opportunities and characteristics of information interaction in the design of mobile applications are clarified in relation to the training of managers of socio-cultural activities for the formation of their communicative tolerance. The creation of mobile applications was implemented in classes on the discipline "Innovative experience of professional activity in the field of culture". To develop mobile applications, specialists use the tools of the MIT App Inventor environment. The test by V. V. Boyko is used to assess the formation of communicative tolerance. 82 bachelors of the Orel State Institute of Culture are involved. The area of training is 51.03.03 “Socio-cultural activities”, specialization – «Management of socio-cultural activities». The 2-Pearson criterion was used for statistical processing of data. The authors describe a system of work on the use of mobile applications for socio-cultural purposes to promote tolerance and multilingual interaction; formation of the respect for the cultural characteristics of other people; development of emotional intelligence. The peculiarity of the proposed information interaction is the adaptation of the content of the mobile application to the specifics of the training area. In conclusion, the characteristic features of the work that provide additional conditions for the development of communicative tolerance are formulated: the voluntary nature of communication between all participants in information interaction; the use of information technologies to support dialogue within the framework of professional communication; the availability of feedback through tools and components of the development environment. The results obtained can be used to update training programs for managers of socio-cultural activities, advanced training courses, and the content of webinars on mobile application development.