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Tatiana V.

 Safonova, doctor of pedagogic, professor

Marina V. Berezina, Associate Prof.

The Glazov - Korolenko State Pedagogical Institute, Russia



Organization of polycultural education through information and communication technologies

 

Today there are constant changes in all spheres of Russian society, including the education system. While these processes are based on general trends in world development. One of these is registration of interests of the society, saving and development of national cultures, languages and traditions, cultural and political integration of the society with other countries.

Providing such purpose is only possible in the conditions of polycultural education that takes into account the interests of the state, national and ethnocultural characteristics of the population, the conditions of intercultural dialogue. One of the criteria for the effectiveness of such education is its practical orientation, which assumes the possession of modern technics, different languages, etc.

Information and communication technologies in education have a significant influence on the modern information world view, on the development common educational, cultural and professional skills to work with information. Pedagogical purposes of use of information and communication technologies in the context of such education are:

- development of student's personality, his preparation for life  in the conditions of the information society of mass communication and globalization;

- realization of the social order  in the conditions of the modern society: training of professionals and specialists, competitive at world level;

- increase of efficiency and quality of the educational process through the implementation of possibilities of information and communication technologies;

- activation of cognitive activity;

- flexibility in the educational process through the great choice of the content and methods of teaching and learning, the simultaneous combination of different methods  for different groups of students, including groups belonging to different cultures, nationalities, etc.;

- opportunities for immediate communication with native speakers of other cultures (remote projects, e-mail, Internet contest, video conferencing, etc.).

An electronic educational-methodical complexes take a special place among such means, which are the source of knowledge for students, contains the world experience, allow to involve students in a situation of intercultural communication, expands language competence, etc.

Modern psychological and pedagogical researches show that questions of introduction information and communication technologies in education is relevant. In the Russian pedagogy  the idea of realization for the content of the discipline within educational-methodical complexes finds its origins in works of V.P.Bespalko, D.D.Zuev, J.G.Tatur and other researchers, and in research of A.A.Andreev, I.V.Robert, V.M.Ryabov, E.S.Polat and other scientists with development of computer software.

An electronic educational-methodical complex means a system of the tutorials intended to present a structured educational material of discipline, all the components of which are electronic documents or electronic editions and based on didactic principles (a principle of integrity, a principle of recurrence, a principle of problematical character, a principle of visualization, a principle of individualization, a principle of availability and a principle of self-education) and specific model of construction.

An electronic educational-methodical complex serves as a way of the organization of independent work of students, which conducive to achieving effective results. For the teacher an electronic educational-methodical complex is ready to package for teaching a particular discipline, in which teacher can includes other components in addition further. The student refers to an electronic educational-methodical complex as an original "tutorial" which contains all the information on existing requirements for skills and knowledge, and, most importantly, information where this knowledge can be received. Consequently, an electronic educational-methodical complex must provide an intelligent and productive activity of students and training to achieve purposes with the greatest possible effective result. The composition and structure an electronic educational-methodical complex can be variations in dependence on whether a substantial component of it accompanies.

On this basis, a model of organization of work by students through electronic educational-methodical complex in secondary school includes:

1)

 Task block: purpose and the methodological basis;

2) Technology block: didactic principles of organization of students’ work  using electronic educational-methodical complex, pedagogical conditions of organization of work in class, forms and methods of teaching;

3) Program and informative block: the process of organizing work of students through electronic educational-methodical complex presented in 5 blocks of teaching: the teacher and the teaching, the student and the learning process, programmatic, theoretical, practical and controls;

 4) Resulting block: the competence, criteria of formation of skills of independent work of students in the classroom through electronic educational-methodical complex, predictable results, levels of development of the skills of independent work of students in the classroom.

The purposes of application an electronic educational-methodical complex in this model are directed to provide the student with full training materials for individual studying of discipline, teacher must consult them and control their knowledge. The principles of its operations have been defined such as a principle of integrity, a principle of recurrence, a principle of problematical character, a principle of visualization, a principle of individualization, a principle of availability and a principle of self-education at designing an electronic educational-methodical complex. Content and structural components of an electronic educational-methodical complex are represented by such interrelations as the teacher and the teaching process, student and learning process, program, theoretical/ practical and supervisory units. Forms of organization of the students which are used in the application of an electronic educational-methodical complex are aimed at an individualized learning and a self-organization of students. The model also identifies predicted results of training, namely improving the efficiency of management of educational process and the independent work of students, by means of modern information and communication technologies.

Specific content of each element depends on the teacher and may vary depending on the changing requirements of the educational process, their own teaching methods, level of students’ knowledge, occurrences of the new means based on occurrences of the new means based on, etc. The choice of software which helps to develop this model of an electronic educational-methodical complex is prerogative of the authors.

Thus, a systematic, a competent and a purposeful use of information and communication technologies in the educational process (in particular, an electronic educational-methodical complex) as a tutorial and a way of the organization of students’ work in the conditions of polycultural education is actual and useful, that will create conditions for a comprehensive and harmonious development of personality, capable to creative self-development and to the dialogue of cultures, to the competitiveness in today's society.  

Notes:

1. Andreev, A.A. An educational-methodical complex for e-Learning: problems of structure and design [electronic resource]. - http:// museum.seun.ru.

2.  Pryadyokho, À.N. Educational-methodical complex as a didactic means [Text] / À.N Pryadyokho, A.A Pryadyokho // Vestnik of State University of Bryansk. 2008. ¹ 1. - p. 49-54.

3. Robert, I.V. Modern information technologies in education: teaching issues, and prospects of use / I.V Robert. - Moscow School Press, 1994. - 321.