The Interethnic Relations Culture Education of International Students by Means of Innovative Technologies

The increasing number of international students at Russian universities every year puts on the agenda not only the regulation of organizational and legal issues and changes in the syllabus, but also changes in the content of the education and the educational process at universities. The interaction of students from different countries, the conflict of nationalities and cultures raise the issues of the interethnic relations culture education. The article highlights the contradictions between the need of the modern society in the interethnic relations culture education of international students and the small amount of studies in the educational theory and practice, the ability of universities to educate the interethnic relations culture of international students and the insufficient level of scientific and methodological support of this process.

The necessity to deal with the identified contradictions has pinpointed the problem of the research and scientific justification of the content of the interethnic relations culture education of international students in the conditions of the University Preparatory Department.

The article discusses the meaning of the concept "interethnic relations culture of international students" and analyses the value of innovative technologies in the process of the interethnic relations culture education of international students. The analysis of various innovative technologies allowed us to justify and test the author’s technology of the interethnic relations culture education of international students. The results confirmed the importance of practical implementation of the innovative technology of the interethnic relations culture education of international students into the educational process of the University Preparatory Department.