Multiethnic Environment Research Articles

Поляки в Латвийской Республике как позитивный пример взаимопроникновения культур

The purpose of the article is to present a historical and cultural review of the fourth largest national minority living in the territory of modern Latvia, namely the Polish ethnic group. Based on the comparative historical method, the issues of preserving the identity of the Poles, as well as their role in the history, scientific life and cultural life of the country, are considered. As a result of this work, the facts of the interpenetration of Polish and Latvian cultures were revealed, which the author considers as a positive factor for the coexistence of different peoples in a multi-ethnic environment. It is concluded that the lack of hostility and hostility of the ethnic majority towards national minorities living in the territory of their state is extremely positive and has a significant contribution to the further formation and development of the nation.

Специфика на обучението по информационни технологии в прогимназиален етап в мултиетническа среда

This article aims to show the main specifics in a multi-ethnic school environment and to propose tools and a model based on practical experience in enhancing the success of information technology training. The specifics in the educational environment of children bilinguals are examined. A model of teaching in a school with a multiethnic environment is presented through the use of individual and group practical work on information technologies.

Textbook on rhetoric: an attempt of authors reflection

The article is devoted to the textbook on rhetoric published at Altai State University. Two key points determined the main subject of consideration they are orientation toward the graduate students of philology and their preparation for professional activities in a multi-ethnic environment. The need for a book is justified by the features of the socio-communicative situation in the countries of Greater Altai. The authors' attention is focused on issues of general and professional rhetorical, theoretical and practical training of graduate students of philology, their mastery of communicative and rhetorical competencies as well as the development of research skills. It is shown that the content of the textbook, reading-book and case-studies contributes to theformation of the academic and educational competencies of graduate students in the field of rhetoric, the development of independent work skills and also improvement of verbal (rhetorical) practice; that the formation of knowledge in the field of Kazakh national rhetoric requires an understanding of the priority over the speecheloquence, the concept of speech relevance, or conscious “speaking”. Orientation of graduate philologists to the work in a multi-ethnic environment reveals the importance of interculturalal communication, understanding the specifics of interpersonal relations between the speaker and the listener. In the field of higher education didactics, the research prospects are due to the improvement of the rhetorical culture of the teacher’s personality and his role as a person providing successful group communication.

Forming the Civic Participation and Culture Interethnic Interaction of Students’

The article is devoted to the formation of civic participation and culture of interethnic interaction of students. The urgency of forming of civic participation and culture of interethnic interaction is conditioned by the demands of a modern multi-ethnic society. Thanks to the increasing mobility, the society of many countries is becoming multinational. Civic participation and the culture of interethnic interaction becomes an important factor in all spheres of public life. The list of materials and methods used during the pedagogical experiment on the formation of civic participation and culture of interethnic interaction is described. The logic of organizing a pedagogical experiment of students included 4 stages: preparatory, ascertaining, formulating and controlling. A definition of the concept of "civic participation and culture of students’ interethnic interaction" was developed. The diagnostic toolkit of the experiment was selected in accordance with the criteria for of civic participation and culture of interethnic interaction of students. Experimental work has revealed that the students' readiness for productive civic participation and interethnic interaction directly depends on their level of interethnic interaction culture. The most effective means of forming culture of interethnic interaction between students is their active involvement in a multiethnic environment, as well as civic participation in local self-government on issues of interethnic politics.

Birth Rituals and Cultural Memory of Albanian Diaspora in Ukraine

The article is devoted to the traditional birth rituals of Albanians of Ukraine reflected in their cultural memory. Several migrations from the South Albania since XV-XVI century, following by different geographic, political, ethnic and sociocultural surroundings influenced a lot Albanian traditional culture but ritual practices related to the human birth, still take a special place in the cultural memory of the Albanian diaspora. Memory on ritual practices related to the birth is mostly based on contrasting the past and present that illustrated by rituals related to the folk obstetrics and beliefs about protection, health and well-being of a mother and a child. Specificity of birth rituals is interpreted by bearers of tradition as representation of the group’s identity in a multiethnic environment in the South Ukraine and as a way for Albanians to save and transmit their culture.

Ptolemaic Cavalrymen on Painted Alexandrian Funerary Monuments

The multiethnic environment of Ptolemaic Alexandria resulted in cross-cultural transmission of funerary practices and associated material culture that introduced many traditions to Egypt from the Mediterranean world. Along with an influx of mercenaries serving in the Ptolemaic army came cultural and artistic knowledge from their places of origin, which they (or their families) incorporated into their burials. One motif, which appears on late 4th–3rd-century painted funerary monuments from Alexandria, is that of a soldier on horseback, alluding to images of the heroic hunter or warrior on horseback found in tombs in the regions of northern Greece. These Alexandrian monuments commemorated members of the Ptolemaic cavalry, some of whom are identified as Macedonian or Thessalian by accompanying Greek inscriptions. The image of a soldier astride his rearing horse not only emphasized the deceased’s military status, but also established a link with Macedonian and Ptolemaic royal iconography. This type of self-representation served a number of purposes: to signal the deceased’s cultural and geographic origins, demonstrate his elite role in Ptolemaic society and imply connections to the Ptolemaic court, all of which were important to the immigrant inhabitants of early Alexandria as they sought to express their identity in a new geographical, cultural, and political setting.

Resources of interactive educational space as a basis for the organisation of multicultural education

Introduction. The urgency of the problem of training future teachers to implement the ideas of multicultural education consists in the need to create a new school and a new person, for whom the interiorisation of human and national heritage is a unifying beginning and a stimulus for the development of society, culture, education and personality. The implementation of the resources of dialogue educational space allows this problem to be solved. A dialogue in its various modifications acts as a pedagogical tool, by which various cultural spheres are integrated and creative activity of pupils as citizens of the multicultural world is stimulated. The aim of the present publication was to present the options for the organisation of theoretical and practical training of future teachers for effective and creative professional activity in the dialogue educational space, which operates at the level of interaction of different cultures. Methodology and research methods. In the course of the research, the scientific ideas of humanistic, cultural and dialogical approaches to modern education were used and revised. The humanistic approach is the key approach in the study, since it determines the basis of multicultural education, emphasises the central position of a personality in the interethnic dialogue. The culturological approach in education is focused on the socio-cultural processes, valuable attitudes, unique traditions and customs of diverse ethnic groups, and on the adaptation of students to the available multiethnic environment when preserving national identity. The dialogical approach combines humanistic and culturological approaches, it justifies and creates interaction between different cultures based on the principles of pluralism and tolerance. Results and scientific novelty. The article reveals the purpose of multicultural education – the versatile development of a personality on the basis of universal and national values, aimed at preserving the ethnic and cultural diversity of the peoples of Russia. The authors formulated theoretical foundations of multicultural education, in which the development of multicultural dialogue of tolerance and respect for a different way of life and mental (intellectual) values of other ethnic groups are dominant aspects. The prerequisites for the development of the humanistic potential of the teacher and student are shown in the context of modelling and implementation of ethno-cultural component of education, development of intercultural interaction and cultural experience. The principles of multicultural education are characterised: continuity, differentiation and diversity, creativity, cultural integrity, three-dimensional (stereoscopic) picture of the world, multilinguality and variability. The definition of the concept of dialogue educational space is given. Dialogue educational space is considered as specially designed environment of positive multicultural cooperation between students and teachers. Practical significance. The research materials can be used in the practice of higher pedagogical education to improve the quality of training and development of multicultural competency of future teachers.

FORMATION OF READINESS OF FUTURE SPECIALIST OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA TO THE INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION IN A MULTI-ETHNIC ENVIRONMENT

FORMATION OF READINESS OF FUTURE SPECIALIST OF THE MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF RUSSIA TO THE INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION IN A MULTI-ETHNIC ENVIRONMENT

PREPARATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IDEAS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL SPACE

Introduction. The urgency of the problem of training future teachers to implement the ideas of multicultural education consists in the need to create a new school and a new person, for whom the interiorisation of human and national heritage is a unifying beginning and a stimulus for the development of society, culture, education and personality. The implementation of the resources of dialogue educational space allows this problem to be solved. A dialogue in its various modifications acts as a pedagogical tool, by which various cultural spheres are integrated and creative activity of pupils as citizens of the multicultural world is stimulated.The aim of the present publication was to present the options for the organisation of theoretical and practical training of future teachers for effective and creative professional activity in the dialogue educational space, which operates at the level of interaction of different cultures.Methodology and research methods. In the course of the research, the scientific ideas of humanistic, cultural and dialogical approaches to modern education were used and revised. The humanistic approach is the key approach in the study, since it determines the basis of multicultural education, emphasises the central position of a personality in the interethnic dialogue. The culturological approach in education is focused on the socio-cultural processes, valuable attitudes, unique traditions and customs of diverse ethnic groups, and on the adaptation of students to the available multiethnic environment when preserving national identity. The dialogical approach combines humanistic and culturological approaches, it justifies and creates interaction between different cultures based on the principles of pluralism and tolerance.Results and scientific novelty. The article reveals the purpose of multicultural education – the versatile development of a personality on the basis of universal and national values, aimed at preserving the ethnic and cultural diversity of the peoples of Russia. The authors formulated theoretical foundations of multicultural education, in which the development of multicultural dialogue of tolerance and respect for a different way of life and mental (intellectual) values of other ethnic groups are dominant aspects. The prerequisites for the development of the humanistic potential of the teacher and student are shown in the context of modelling and implementation of ethno-cultural component of education, development of intercultural interaction and cultural experience. The principles of multicultural education are characterised: continuity, differentiation and diversity, creativity, cultural integrity, three-dimensional (stereoscopic) picture of the world, multilinguality and variability. The definition of the concept of dialogue educational space is given. Dialogue educational space is considered as specially designed environment of positive multicultural cooperation between students and teachers.Practical significance. The research materials can be used in the practice of higher pedagogical education to improve the quality of training and development of multicultural competency of future teachers.

ТЕОРЕТИЧНІ АСПЕКТИ ВЗАЄМИН СТУДЕНТСЬКОЇ МОЛОДІ У ПОЛІКУЛЬТУРНОМУ ПРОСТОРІ В УКРАЇНСЬКИХ ЗАКЛАДАХ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ

The article is devoted to substantiation of the necessity of accentuating attention to cross cultural education as means of personality socialization into multicultural environment in the educational process, discusses the social importance and practical necessity of the formation of students’ interpersonal relations in a multicultural environment at higher pedagogical educational institutions. It is also devoted to further admitting of directions in which the cross cultural education develops and is focused on the fact that in the formation of communicative competence there was always attached high status of cultural etiquette knowledge as an important component of creating knowledgebase and educational picture of the individual life, the current regulator and correlative process of interpersonal relationships. The article covers the issues of pedagogical principals, functions, and aims of cross cultural education, the aim of which is a formation of the person who is ready for the vital activity in a multicultural environment, to live in peace and consent with people of different nations and also to develop multicultural balance in the educational process. Provisions in the training of specialists must be based on the priorities of the universal values, the need to form a communicative multicultural competence, planetary thinking, understanding and the feeling of the personality like an integral part of a single and interconnected world, the formation of positive interpersonal relations between student youth in a multi-ethnic environment. That is, the higher school should be focused on the solution of the main task – to educate not only a specialist with knowledge qualification of high quality of specific branch, but a specialist of such a level of a polytechnic culture, who is capable of implementing the positive interpersonal relationships in the conditions of multicultural environment.

Лингводидактические основы формирования межкультурной компетенции при обучении русскому языку как неродному (на примере Республики Дагестан)

We present the results of educational and methodical work during the implementation of activities on the issues of teaching Russian in a multi-ethnic environment in the Republic of Dagestan. The issues of identifying intercultural competence as a result and criterion of the education quality in a multi-ethnic educational process are considered. We also define the need for expanding the linguodidactic base for the intercultural competence development in teaching Russian through the inclusion of teaching materials with the national and cultural component. The specific practical examples (use of interactive educational technologies: the method of projects, case-study, web-quest) demonstrate ways of organizing educational activities aimed at the development of in-tercultural competence. The relevance of this study is confirmed by the presence of contradictions between the needs of modern society in effective intercultural interaction, highly qualified teach-ing staff, the requirements of regulatory documents and the insufficient level of potential use in the process of learning Russian in a multi-ethnic audience. Particular attention is paid to the methods of demonstrating students’ own national identity in a multi-ethnic environment and presenting native culture through the Russian language, issues of improving the professional competence of Russian teachers required for teaching in a multilingual environment and defining intercultural competence.

Aspects of teachers’ training for schools of national minorities in conditions of multiethnic environment

aspects of teachers’ training for schools of national minorities in conditions of multiethnic environment

Indicators Of Patriotism's Reproduction As A Marker Of Identification Matrix In Youth Environment Of Multiethnic Society

Patriotism as a multilevel phenomenon and the most important factor in the formation of identification guidelines and solidarist practices attracts much attention of the scientific community today. This problem is especially of current interest in the Russian scientific community as modern Russia seeks for indicatives of the all-Russian identity. However, it forms significant difficulties in the scope of the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural composition of Russian. The authors of this article consider that patriotism is as an indicator that can become the basis for the identification matrix of Russians as representatives of various ethno-cultural and age groups living in different regions of the country. So patriotism is important for young people. The younger generation is as the main resource of social reproduction and as the future image of any state. Therefore sociological analysis of indicators of patriotism's reproduction in its environment becomes fundamentally important. Processes of the formation of patriotic attitudes are as complex and contradictory in a multi-ethnic environment. For this reason the authors pay attention to the southern region as the most multi-ethnic region of the Russian state. The sociological empirical research was carrying out in Dagestan. We can to identify the main indicators of the formation and patriotism's reproduction in the youth environment of this region and also a number of problems impeding the becoming of a mature state-civil (Russian) youth identity by it. The authors think that these problems determine the need for the activity component in the system of indicators of patriotism. The last of them based on love for the Motherland as the emotional-sensory perception of phenomenon. The authors of this article are convinced of patriotism's impossibility without education of civic responsibility and readiness to act (work, study) for our Fatherland. This statement based on concept of civic patriotism which was chosen as methodological basis of this research. We consider patriotism as the most important resource for the formation of state-civic identity in the methodological scopes. Not only the study of patriotism, but also the developments of recommendations in the sphere of patriotic education of youth are relevant to prevent the risks of forming nationalistic attitudes that are very dangerous for multiethnic societies and states.

Indicators Of Patriotism's Reproduction As A Marker Of Identification Matrix In Youth Environment Of Multiethnic Society

Patriotism as a multilevel phenomenon and the most important factor in the formation of identification guidelines and solidarist practices attracts much attention of the scientific community today. This problem is especially of current interest in the Russian scientific community as modern Russia seeks for indicatives of the all-Russian identity. However, it forms significant difficulties in the scope of the multi-ethnic and multi-cultural composition of Russian. The authors of this article consider that patriotism is as an indicator that can become the basis for the identification matrix of Russians as representatives of various ethno-cultural and age groups living in different regions of the country. So patriotism is important for young people. The younger generation is as the main resource of social reproduction and as the future image of any state. Therefore sociological analysis of indicators of patriotism's reproduction in its environment becomes fundamentally important. Processes of the formation of patriotic attitudes are as complex and contradictory in a multi-ethnic environment. For this reason the authors pay attention to the southern region as the most multi-ethnic region of the Russian state. The sociological empirical research was carrying out in Dagestan. We can to identify the main indicators of the formation and patriotism's reproduction in the youth environment of this region and also a number of problems impeding the becoming of a mature state-civil (Russian) youth identity by it. The authors think that these problems determine the need for the activity component in the system of indicators of patriotism. The last of them based on love for the Motherland as the emotional-sensory perception of phenomenon. The authors of this article are convinced of patriotism's impossibility without education of civic responsibility and readiness to act (work, study) for our Fatherland. This statement based on concept of civic patriotism which was chosen as methodological basis of this research. We consider patriotism as the most important resource for the formation of state-civic identity in the methodological scopes. Not only the study of patriotism, but also the developments of recommendations in the sphere of patriotic education of youth are relevant to prevent the risks of forming nationalistic attitudes that are very dangerous for multiethnic societies and states.

FORMATION OF INTER-ETHNIC TOLERANCE OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE PROCESS OF PRACTICAL TRAINING

The problem of professional formation of teachers and their activity in a multiethnic region requires special attention, as modern political realia urge for tolerant interaction with cosmopolitan student and parent groups, which is possible only if the cross-cultural competence of a specialist has been formed earlier, including: knowledge of the culture and history, ability to generate and bring the ideas of world into the content of general education to reflect its diversity; the ability to organize pedagogical process as a dialogue of different cultures in time and space. This implies awareness of the motives for multicultural activities in a multinational environment: needs and interests, aspirations, value orientations, motives; assessment of personal traits and qualities of future specialist; readiness to carry out professional activity in a multicultural educational space; formation of interethnic tolerance and regulation on its basis of their professionalism in accordance with the working modules of a specific society. The purpose of the article is to reveal the practice features of «Bachelor» and «Master» degree students by specialty 013 «Primary education», taking into account the specifics of a polyethnic region. Methods research used: analysis of scientific data, Internet resources, Ph.D. dissertations in the study field, the methods of practice organisation for «Bachelor» and «Master» degree students by specialty 013 «Primary education»; observation, conversation, testing, questionnaires, diagnostic work. Working with the students in a multi-ethnic environment, future teachers begin to realize that they must be constantly engaged into the process of self-education and self-development, formation of interethnic tolerance, social stance, etc. It is during the practice that a student can really learn to respect, love and perceive the children as they are, to form tolerance, endurance, responsibility and sense of duty, to master the specifics of work (peculiarities of educational and cultural positions, customs and traditions, language) with children and parents − representatives of national minorities, religions, races, etc. That is, during practical pedagogical activity, in a polyethnic environment, personal and professional qualities of the future teacher should be applied.

The role of reading in the development of giftedness in the context of globalization and national identity

The article explores the cultural potential of reading as one of the factors in the development of children's giftedness. The role of the book as the bearer of culture in the process of preserving national identity is revealed. The authors of the article discover the growing importance of family reading in the process of a gifted person development. The survey of respondents, university teachers living in multiethnic environment in the territories of Armenia and the Republic of Tatarstan, confirmed the importance of national literature in future teachers training. The question of the correlation of such phenomena as globalization and the preservation of national identity is touched upon.

Вивчення стану сформованості комунікативної компетентності майбутніх офіцерів поліції

As a result of the rapid development of intercultural communication and global transformations taking place in the world in the 90s of the XX century, it became necessary to create a new personality with a new set of qualities and competencies that are urgently needed for the rational functioning in a multicultural world. For the successful performance of professional duties is not enough to be a specialist who knows job, today. Modern Ukrainian society needs educated professionals who can think critically and make decisions independently in a situation that requires a choice, that is, to be dynamic, mobile, creative. That is, the main feature of professional activity is its development, which requires constant updating and improvement of skills. Each specialist should acquire new knowledge and improve their skills, and, consequently, improve their professional qualities. According to research, professionals who are not engaged in improving professional competence, there comes a time in life when they have internal dissatisfaction with their activities and they need to improve professional skills, or even change their professional orientation. Given the large variety of information technologies at all educational levels, it is not difficult to improve your professional level, and mobile learning is a way to solve a number of educational problems today. In this regard, the relevance of communicative education of future police officers is increasing. After all, the need to train a competent police officer capable of effective professional activity in a multi-ethnic environment is a priority in the training of future police officers in the parameters of European standards. The socio-cultural aspect in the professional training of future police officers is not only the formation of communicative competence, but also the space of interpersonal relations, in which a holistic culture of the individual is formed. The article presents an analysis of the diagnostic results of the formation of communicative competence of the future police officer. The results demonstrate the levels of formation of communicative competence of future police officers in cognitive, emotional and behavioural components.

INFLUENCE OF HISTORICAL MIGRATIONS ON THE SETTLEMENTS AND ORIGIN OF POPULATION IN THE MAČVA REGION (WESTERN SERBIA)

Mačva is the lowland region in the northwestern part of Serbia, which due to natural and geopolitical benefits for the existence and security, was the meeting place of migration from the current Dinaric hilly and mountainous areas. Due to the demographic and migratory movements Mačva has historically been a multicultural and multiethnic environment, which took place in the complex processes of ethno-cultural interaction and assimilation. However, the historical memory and folk tradition, as well as some elements of folklore, mentalities and local identity, are still remnants of the countries of origin. The paper is devoted attention mainly origin population in Mačva placed in the context of socio-historical and political events. Researching included 35 settlements of Mačva.

Što roditelji djeci govore i na koji način prenose poruke o etničkoj pripadnosti?

Children’s developmental outcomes are the result of their unique characteristics and different environments they develop in, as well as their interaction. An important part of this interaction is marked by social meaning, attitudes and beliefs about the importance of ethnicity, especially in a multiethnic environment. Previous studies were dominantly focused on family functioning and parenting processes in western families, majority groups and middle socioeconomic status. Minority families face specific challenges due to their different history, cultural heritage and status in society, thus generalization of the existing results to these families is limited. Also, there is a lack of research on family processes that include transmission of messages about group membership, especially in the European area. In this paper we review research about ethnic socialization, i.e. parenting in the direction of conveying information, values, beliefs and attitudes related to ethnicity. First, we present the theoretical framework of ethnic socialization and its relationship with parents’ and children’s characteristics and experiences as well as children’s developmental outcomes. Second, we consider limitations of the existing research. Finally, we discuss the importance of the ethnic socialization research in Croatian multiethnic communities along with an overview of the research on ethnic socialization in the ethnically divided city of Vukovar.

Kształtowanie wyznaczników etniczności i redefinicja tożsamości w grupie etnicznej Wiślan z Ostojićeva (Banat, Serbia)

The aim of this study is to show the contemporary transformations of identity of minority ethnic group whose ancestors came from Wisla (Silesia, Poland) to Ostojicevo (Banat, Serbia) in the 19th century. Those changes of identity are directly related to the organizational changes taking place in this ethnic group today. I show the aspects of the cultural and artistic associations, whose activities affect the redefinition of the identity of this minority community in a multiethnic environment. The village of Ostojicevo lies an area which has a diverse ethnic structure, so the boundaries between groups of people are constantly negotiated. Interactions between them lead in effect to changes both in the organizational group and, in the symbolic dimension, at the level of identification. The article is based on field research conducted in Ostojicevo in November 2016.