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Maintaining ideas about ethnic markers among the Udmurts and Tatars of Udmurtia (based on selected schools in Izhevsk for the 2024–2025 academic year)
Research Article
Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 3- Authors:
- Кудрявцева Ирина Константиновна, Rustam N. Kasimov
- Work direction:
- Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology
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Ethnic Identity of Primary School Students from Tuvan Families: Research Experience
Research Article Ethnic Culture Volume 8 No 3- Author:
- Aldynai A. Sergin-ool
- Work direction:
- Ethno-Cultural Problems of Education
- Abstract:
- This paper examines the development of ethnic identity in primary school-age children from Tuvan families residing in Kyzyl. Drawing on a theoretical synthesis of various conceptual approaches, the author focuses on the essence and structure of ethnic identity. The study employs M. Kuhn and T. McPartland's “Who Am I?” technique and its adaptation by Russian scholar Z. V. Sikevich. The findings indicate that the ethnic identity of Tuvan primary schoolchildren is in the process of active formation but has not yet become a stable core of self-awareness. Children's self-descriptions are dominated by social roles (family, friends, school) and personal qualities, while ethnic markers are of secondary importance. This is attributable to limited life experience and cognitive immaturity, the predominance of concrete social roles over abstract group belonging, and the weak salience of ethnic themes in everyday life within a homogeneous environment. The study revealed that the majority of children identify as Tuvan and feel a connection to their people, language, and traditions. At the same time, this high level of ethnic self-identification coexists with limited proficiency in their native language, the predominance of Russian in everyday communication, and only a superficial engagement with traditional culture.
- Keywords:
- self-determination, primary school student, ethnic identity, Tuvan family, structure of ethnic identity