Pedagogical University as a Center for Ethnocultural Education: Responding to the Challenges of the New Time
The experience of the Mordovia State Pedagogical University of implementing ethnocultural educational activities in various directions is presented in the article. The author describes projects and events carried out at the university, aimed at supporting and developing the national identity and native languages of the peoples of the Republic of Mordovia. It is concluded, that this work contributes to the training of highly qualified pedagogical personnel who are able to organize qualitatively the educational process in teams with a multi-ethnic composition of students, and stimulates the accumulation of unique experience that requires generalization and further dissemination.