Zhang X. Education of ethnic tolerance of students through the activities of the music club

Dissertation research is sanctified to the problem of education of ethnic tolerance of students by facilities of club activity. Ethnic tolerance is defined as the kind of tolerance that is based on the principles of mutual understanding, solidarity and patience; it is described as a psychosocial trait of individuals expressed in their readiness for cooperation, partnership, cultural exchange, and respect for personal and social dignity of people from other ethnic groups. The fostering of ethnic tolerance is viewed as the formation of readiness in an individual to initiate contact and maintain further interaction with people from different national, ethnic or religious groups; the process of prevention and mitigation of intolerance in the attitude towards other nations or communities. Essence and features of education of ethnic tolerance of students are reasonable by facilities of club activity. Club certainly as multifunction recreation, in a civilized manner-elucidative organization or establishment the main task of that is providing of necessities of population in rich in content leisure, assistance to the self-education and creative realization of personality. Potential and features of education of ethnic tolerance of students are educed by facilities of activity of musical club. Effectiveness of the content-technological providing of education of ethnic tolerance of students is tested by facilities of musical club. To the structure of the content-technological providing of education of ethnic tolerance of students the semantic entered facilities of activity of musical club of this providing and technological to composition. By basic semantic directions of activity on education of ethnic tolerance of students it was certain: development of the emotional experiencing, forming of aesthetic perception of the world and bringing in to musical activity. The technological providing is described as totality of methods, forms, receptions and facilities of educator work from education of ethnic tolerance of students. On education of ethnic tolerance of students a student musical club is select the basic complex form of experimental work. A student musical club is select as a form of educator work that will be able to integrate the system of educator influences (musical, artistic-estetically, moral education) sent to confession of value of ethnic tolerance as personality formation and forming of skills and abilities of tolerant behavior. The estimation of data of experiment proved that due to introduction of the content-technological providing of process of education of ethnic tolerance of students facilities of musical club are noticeable changes in the levels of indexes of breeding of ethnic tolerance of students of control and experimental groups. The most noticeable results of education of ethnic tolerance of students of ЕГ were got on such indexes: "realization of meaningfulness of ethnic tolerance", "satisfaction from character, to maintenance of co-operating with the representatives of other ethnic groups", "presence for the students of positive experience of poliethnic cooperation". It is marked that the general positive dynamics of breeding of ethnic tolerance of students on all criteria and levels for ЕG presents 22,35%, for comparison in KG 5,79%. The author proposes further areas of research into the raised issue, including social and educational efforts aimed at fostering ethnic tolerance in students living in the sociocultural environment of a big city; professional training in fostering ethnic tolerance in young people for providers of social and educational work; improving the students' readiness for tackling other kinds of intolerance.