Technologies for the formation of Russian identity among schoolchildren in the ethno-cultural educational environment

The purpose of the work is to theoretically substantiate the technologies for the formation of Russian identity among schoolchildren in an ethnocultural educational environment and formulate recommendations for their use. Based on the methods of theoretical analysis, as well as generalization of his own and advanced pedagogical experience, the author proposes some effective forms and means that contribute to the formation of Russian identity among schoolchildren in an ethno-cultural educational environment. The article emphasizes the connection between the concepts of «Russian identity» and «patriotism», provides a definition of the ethno-cultural educational environment, describes the various areas of work on the formation of the Russian identity of students in the course of educational and extracurricular activities, reveals the forms of organization of interethnic and intercultural communication participants in the educational process. The paper also considers the means of forming Russian identity in the lessons of literature, mathematics, fine arts, music, and technology. In the conclusions, the author characterizes the process of formation of Russian identity as the process of becoming a socially active person who is able to actively interact in a polyethnic and multicultural society, to carry out interethnic and intercultural communication and cooperation, and from this point of view assigns a special role to gaming technologies and highlights their social function, which consists in the development of social roles by schoolchildren, and, consequently, sociocultural norms, the ability to evaluate their social behavior in terms of the mastered rules of behavior in situations of interethnic and intercultural interaction.

schoolchildren, pedagogical technologies, Russian identity, ethno-cultural educational environment.