ACTIVE AND INTERACTIVE METHODS OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION OF STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS

• Оксана Борисівна Петренко

  РДГУ

Multicultural education is considered as a process of purposeful socialization of students, that involves mastering the system of national and universal cultural values, communicative and general cultural empathic skills, giving students the opportunity to intercultural interaction and show understanding of other cultures, as well as tolerance towards their carriers.

The expediency of using teachers in the process of multicultural education of active and interactive methods that promote effective interaction in the classroom with representatives of different cultures is substantiated. Some active and interactive methods of multicultural education according to the age groups of students have been characterized.

It has been established that the most effective methods of organizing multicultural education at elementary school are those that are based on interaction, games, form communication skills, such as: conversations, dialogues / discussion, outdoor games, role-playing games / dramatization, analysis of stories, drawing with discussion, beliefs etc.

The most effective active and interactive methods of multicultural education with adolescents have been identified, such as: dialogue, discussion, work in pairs and groups, brainstorming, role-playing games, content analysis of texts and other sources of cultural information, interviewing, polling, a method for modeling specific situations, case studies, “icebreakers”, discussion in a circle, making flyers, continuum, assessment and self-esteem, etc.

The most effective active and interactive methods of multicultural education of high school students are: debates, project method, cooperative training, compilation of culturological autobiography, role-playing and business games, round tables discussions, ethnographic research, cross-cultural modeling, etc.

It is proved that the use of active and interactive methods in multicultural education allows us to achieve the set goals and promotes the personal growth of students as well as teachers.

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