Formation of tolerance among young people through multicultural education as a preventive factor of countering extremism and terrorism

Abstract

© 2020 EManuscript Technologies. All rights reserved. Purpose of the study: Theoretical and experimental substantiation of measures for the prevention and control of extremism and terrorist activities in the youth community on the basis of multicultural education and upbringing. Methodology: The scientific and theoretical teachings about the structure, logical organization, technologies of the multicultural approach in education; theoretical provisions on the methods and means of activity of teachers of higher pedagogical education in solving urgent problems of modern multicultural education and upbringing of college kids, expanding the future specialists' competencies in resistance to extremist calls and actions, became the fundamental basis of this study. Results: The authors substantiated the existing contradictions in the field of multicultural education of student youth and the need to resolve these contradictions in the process of prevention extremism and terrorism by means of multicultural education. The authors compiled a model of the conditions for the formation of multicultural education of students, where the goal and objectives, principles and content of multicultural education were determined; the process and mechanism of multicultural education, a system of forms, methods and means of forming levels of the youth tolerance are presented. The main factors for development and implementation of such a model we called mega-, macro- and meso-factors. A digital educational resource «Theory and Practice of Multicultural Education» was introduced to implement the model of conditions for the formation of multicultural education of students, after which future teachers acquired general cultural, professional and special competencies. Application of this study: Presented by the authors experience of innovative possibilities to implement forms and methods, techniques of education and training of college kids' tolerance by means of multicultural education in the conditions of polyethnicity, multilingualism, multiculturalism and polimentality of the region and the university staff is proposed for practical use in pedagogical universities. Novelty / originality of this study: The scientific novelty of this study involves developing the theory and principles, the content of the application of sound theoretical provisions in practice of multicultural education of future teachers to expand the competencies of future teachers in the education of children and adolescents on modern humanistic foundations. The research results open up a new logical direction for applied research in this and related fields of educational technology.