Description of the technology for forming students' ethnic identity in the modern context: research results

In modern conditions of the development of the information society, there is a tendency to complicate the content and structure of the identity of the individual, which is the result of his free choice. Simple identification with cultural patterns becomes impossible due to the blurring of value orientations, unified, standardized norms and values imposed by mass culture, the media and communications, virtual reality technologies. Children, adolescents and young people have problems identifying themselves as a person in society due to the multiplicity of self-images that can coexist and conflict at the same time. Actualization of the problem of ethnic identity is especially acute for the pedagogical community: along with the need to educate a citizen and a patriot in the implementation of state policy in the field of education, this problem is no less relevant for vocational education that trains teachers. Appeal to the problem of the formation of ethnic identity is connected, first, with the socio-cultural changes taking place in society, the processes of modernization of education. The ethnic identity of a developing personality is determined by a complex interaction of various factors (historical, geographical, religious, and sociocultural). The declared priorities of the state policy in the field of culture and education, national policy, first, aim at the formation of civic identity in a multicultural and multi-confessional society, a component of which is ethnic identity. The purpose of the article is to refine the concept of “ethnic identity” in the context of the study, to describe the technology of forming the ethnic identity of students by means of extracurricular activities, and to present the results of an empirical study. The article discusses the possibilities of extracurricular activities for the formation of ethnic identity, taking into account the regional context at the level of primary general education. An interpretation of the results of the empirical study and conclusions are presented.