Interethnic tolerance and ways of its development among students of pedagogical specialties in higher education institutions

The presented article is devoted to the development of interethnic tolerance among students of pedagogical specialties in higher education institutions. Based on the works of B. Barber, J. Berry, A. G. Asmolov, M. S. Mirimanov, V. A. Lectorsky, G. U. Soldatov and other researchers, the authors clarified the purpose and objectives of the development of interethnic tolerance of future teachers, as well as systematized its main criteria and indicators. The article also presents the author's complex of pedagogical conditions that ensure the development of interethnic tolerance of students of pedagogical specialties in higher education institutions. The complex includes the following components: the use of active didactic forms and interactive teaching methods in the educational process, contributing to the formation of a tolerant worldview of students; the organization of interpersonal interaction of students of pedagogical specialties by including them in research activities; actualization of the experience of tolerant interethnic communication of future teachers through the introduction of episodes of tolerance into the educational process; formation of competence among students of pedagogical specialties in the field of development of interethnic tolerance among schoolchildren in the educational process. To solve the tasks set, we used a set of theoretical and empirical research methods: theoretical and comparative analysis of the literature on the research problem, analysis of the regulatory framework for the activities of secondary and higher education institutions, targeted pedagogical observation, questionnaires, testing of students, students and teachers, modeling of socio-pedagogical situations in the educational process; generalization of experimental data, analytical and mathematical processing of them. The effectiveness of the developed set of pedagogical conditions ensuring the development of interethnic tolerance of future teachers was confirmed as a result of experimental work carried out during 2020-2023. One hundred and twenty 1st - 4th year students of pedagogical specialties took part in the experiment.