Ethnocultural education of students in Russian universities

The article discusses the features of the ethnocultural education of students in Russian universities. The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze the peculiarities of the ethnocultural education of students in Russian universities. The methodological basis of the study consists of a systematic structural, active approach that considers the ethno-cultural education of young people as one of the most important activities in universities in Russia. The following research methods were used: theoretical methods (analysis of philosophical, psychological, educational, sociocultural, educational and methodical literature, synthesis, modeling); applied methods (observation, questioning, tests, diagnostics, experiment, methods of mathematical statistics and the identification of the average component). Theoretical propositions were developed on the leading role of active, creative educational activities in the ethno-cultural education of students, based on a common national history and traditions through the introduction of a complex of effective technologies, techniques and exercises. The content of the model for the effective development of students of ethnographic culture was developed and introduced into the educational process of the institution based on the dialectics of cultural pluralism, competence, ethnocultural, technological, personal and activity approaches. The results can be used by university teachers in the course of ethnocultural education and by methodologists of The Institute of Advanced Studies in Education. The following conclusion is made: ethnocultural education based on cultural pluralism is an integrative personal education, that is, the presence and recognition by the teacher of free existence and development of various ethnic cultures as part of a single national community. Ethnocultural education is also the formation in the national identity of the student’s personality and the consolidation in laws and regulations of the right to the free development of various cultures and cultures of an ethnic minority, recognition of this right for all peoples and ethnic groups. Keywords–ethnocultural education, ethnographic culture, students, higher education