FORMATION OF ETHNIC AND CULTURAL COPMETENCE OF FUTURE TEACHERS BY MEANS OF MESUEM PEDAGOGY

Irina N. Andreeva¹*, Ksenia Yu. Badina², Valentina V. Konstantinova³,
Olga A. Makarova4, Elena V. Maltseva5,

¹*Candidate of pedagogical sciences, assistant professor of Mari State University, Russia,
e-mail: andreeva_67@mail.ru
²Candidate of philological sciences, assistant professor of Mari State University, Russia,
e-mail: vuk_2004@mail.ru
³Candidate of pedagogical sciences, assistant professor of Mari State University, Russia,
e-mail: mar.pedagog@gmail.com
⁴Candidate of biological sciences, assistant professor of Mari State University, Russia,
e-mail: omakarova53@rambler.ru
⁵Candidate of pedagogical sciences, assistant professor of Mari State University, Russia,
e-mail: Elena686809@mail.ru
*Corresponding author

Abstract
The article focuses on the formation of ethnic and cultural competence of future teachers with the help of museum pedagogy.

The paper shows the results of diagnostic work on ethnic and cultural competence of the students of Mari State University and the article envisages the components of ethnic and cultural competence: substantial, emotional and valuable, moral and patriotic components. The research covers the works of some German scientists of the XIXth century (A.Likhtvark, G.Freudenthal, G.Kerschensteiner) devoted to the influence of “museum” pedagogy on the rising generation. The paper analyses the significance of the museum of local lore and museum pedagogy in the formation of ethnic and cultural competence of future teachers. The article proves an important message of museum pedagogy that is to show and describe a museum exhibit and only then to reveal information about its history, define the methods of planning and teaching the class. Nowadays museum pedagogy is becoming quite efficient in the context of cooperation between the university and museum, creating pedagogically fruitful and structured cultural and educational space. As there is a huge variety of museums, a student can choose any museum that seems interesting to him, define the amount and contents of the information that he would like to get, choose the ways and time that he might spend watching museum exhibits. Museums should meet, develop and enrich the interests of students who will become teachers in the future.  

The museums of local lore of the republic of Mari El are the examples revealing the techniques of formative work used in training of students that eventually lead to the formation of ethnic and cultural competence in multicultural students’ society. It becomes possible to conclude that museums can act as a social partner in the process of formation of ethnic and cultural competence of future teachers, who work in multicultural educational space. The potential of museum pedagogy in teaching the younger generation is defined by the training of future teachers. The paper works out the main directions of the development of cross-national communication as the basis for discovering new social and cultural reality and establishing friendly relations between the representatives of different cultures and nations.  

Keywords: museum, social partner, ethnic and cultural competence, education, teacher, museum pedagogy, multicultural educational space.