ARPHA Proceedings 3: 1969-1981, doi: 10.3897/ap.2.e1969
Features of Future Teachers’s Training in Order to Work in a Bilingual Educational Environment
expand article infoVita F. Poberezkaya, Swetlana N. Terentyeva
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Abstract
The recognizing of the priority of the educational space unity in the Russian Federation, the protection and traditions’ development of the people of Russia require the comprehensive implementation of the multicultural potential of the country's regions as a source of preservation and transmission of historical and cultural heritage to the younger generation, starting from preschool age. Bilingual education, as one of the conditions for the implementation of a multicultural approach to education, is aimed at supporting the positive social orientation of the modern people consciousness: the need to study their native languages, the history of their native land and native culture. The relevance of the problem is due to the need of considering the conditions for the training of teachers for their professional activities in the bilingual environment of the multicultural educational space of the Komi Republic, where the Russian-Komi bilingual population is dominant. In the main professional educational programs for an enlarged group of specialties and areas of training (hereinafter referred to as EGSA) “Education and Pedagogical Sciences”, disciplines that are aimed at building the professional competence of future teachers in a bilingual educational environment cannot always be found. In the Komi Republic schools, the teaching is carried out in Russian, and the curriculum provides the Komi language training, both as native and non-native. The purpose of the article is to reveal the effective pedagogical conditions (educational, methodical, information-methodical and research-methodical) to the formation of the future teachers’ ethnocultural competence for their professional activities in the bilingual environment of the Komi Republic. The leading research methods for this problem are analysis and generalization of normative, educational and methodical documentation and psychological and pedagogical literature, as well as a method of a design. The pedagogical conditions presented in the article will allow forming the ethnocultural competence of future teachers who will carry out their professional activities in the bilingual educational environment of the school.
Keywords
bilingual educational environment, multicultural educational space, educational and methodological conditions, information and methodological conditions, research and methodological conditions, professional competencies, ethnocultural competence