Authors : Natalia S. Morova, Lyudmila V. Kuznetsova, Anna V. Ulman, Tamara V. Talanova and Sattar F. Mazhitov
Abstract: The study is devoted to solving the problem of counteraction of deviant behavior of pupils on the basis of ethno-cultural education considered in the context of human of culture, endowed with the experience of creative interpersonal interaction with the representatives of different nationalities and religions. The aim of the study is to define the content of ethno-cultural education which is based on ethnic and cultural values as spiritual and moral dominants of modern environment that is an ideology to counter antisocial and deviant behavior of students. On the basis of axiological, cultural, ethnic and cultural approaches methods and techniques of improving ethnic and cultural education are justified, the result of which should be tolerant orientation of the personality in the interpersonal and interethnic cooperation in the educational environment of children and young people. The features of prevention efforts improving of the US and UK youth are considered. The conditions that will contribute to the effective work of the educational institutions in these countries are settled. Particular attention is paid to deviant behavior prevention programs of young people in the US and the UK as a means of counteracting extremism in the educational environment. The main approaches of the study are identified as axiological, environmental, ethno-cultural and linguistic cultural. The result of ethno-cultural education of schoolchildren are social (acquisition of international cooperation experience on the basis of building harmonious relationships in a multicultural environment; intensification of the ethnic, cultural development and self-development of a student) and pedagogical (sustained interest and demand for the development of ethnic and cultural values, enriching ethnocultural knowledge, a developed sense as a part of history and the culture of people the integrity of the perception of ethnic and cultural values in the unity of all components of folk art) effects. Study information may be useful to teachers to develop ethno-cultural education programs.
Natalia S. Morova, Lyudmila V. Kuznetsova, Anna V. Ulman, Tamara V. Talanova and Sattar F. Mazhitov, 2016. Ethnic and Cultural Education in Intercultural Communication as a Factor Counteracting Deviant Behavior of Students. The Social Sciences, 11: 1820-1825.