Regional educational environment as a factor in the formation ethno-cultural competence of students

Abstract

There is a need to educate a person with an ethno-cultural and all-Russian civic identity in the conditions of multinational Russia. Awareness of one's own culture is the basis for understanding and comprehending the value of another culture. Therefore, one of the actual tasks of modern education is the formation of the ethno-cultural competence of students. The purpose of this work is to identify and substantiate the main parameters of the regional educational environment aimed at the formation of ethno-cultural competence of students. The study is based on the results of monitoring the conditions and features of the organization of ethno-cultural education in the Udmurt Republic. There were 2725 respondents, participants of ethno-cultural education relations. Methods of survey, observation, quantitative analysis, generalization of monitoring results were used by authors. The determining parameters of the regional educational environment are identified and substantiated. The ethno-cultural competence of students includes ethno-cultural knowledge, emotional formation of ethno-cultural and civic identity, ethno-cultural skills, and abilities. The study showed that the process of students’ ethno-cultural competence formation and development passes effectively provided that the ethno-cultural content of education is implemented at various levels of the regional educational environment: the education system of the republic, the culture of the people, the communicative spheres of language use. It is advisable to continue comprehensive work on improving the regional educational environment to improve the quality of ethno-cultural education.