FORMING ETHNIC TOLERANCE IN YOUNG SCHOOLCHILDREN IN THE POLYCULTURAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT
The article substantiates the necessity of forming culture of interethnic relations in a multicultural educational environment. The author proves that the integrated course “The World Around”, developed in the framework of the multicultural model of polylingual education in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, has a great potential in the formation of ethnic tolerance among younger school- children. Multicultural polylingual education model in the RNO-Alania is subordinated to the topical interest of the social development strategy for the conservation of cultural diversity and aims at preparing younger students to functional cooperation in the composition of the multi-ethnic civil communities regional, Russian, international scale. As the main forms and methods of formation of interethnic competences of younger school students it is possible to allocate the problem-based methods, partial and search methods, a method of projects, informative and practice-focused tasks.