Features of ethnic consciousness of children of 6 years (on material of research of the Tuva and Russian ethnic groups)

The article provided the results of ethnopedagogical and ethnopsychological researches of national consciousness of Russian and Tuvan children, teenagers and students. Describes the features of ethnic identity of Russian and Tuvan preschoolers 6 years in the conditions of interethnic interaction of Russian and Tuvinians. The representatives of the Russian and Tuvan ethnic groups celebrated the right of ethnic self-identification based on phenotypic traits. In conditions of deprivation of the structural links of self-consciousness in both ethnic groups studied is observed the following trend: most deprivation link is a claim to recognition.