Characteristics of the process model of pedagogical support for the development of university students’ tolerance

This paper presents a process model of pedagogical support for the development of university students’ tolerance and pedagogical conditions for its optimal functioning. The model in question reflects the expediency of independent blocks: targeted (the goal is to form a high level of university students’ tolerance); methodological (activity–based approach and principles of taking into account cultural boundaries, axiology, synergy and dialogue; socio-pedagogical approach and principles of reliance on the positive socio-cultural experience of ethnic groups, self-worth of the individual; participation in decision-making), meaningful (strategies: facilitation, reflexive, communicative (including euphemization as a speech strategy for the tolerance formation), cooperation, coping strategies; directions: meaning-forming, educational, interactive-activating), effective (dynamics and final result – a high level of students’ tolerance, tracked by motivational, cognitive, activity and corresponding indicators in the logical description of the stages (orienting, informative, activating) of achieving the planned result. The effective block of the developed model defines the levels: high (striving to master the ways of constructive interaction, dialogue, equal communication, compromise, cooperation; conscious, systematic knowledge about the phenomenon of “tolerance” about the ways and directions of its development; active life position, etc.); average (fragmentally meaningful emotional and value attitude to the implementation of constructive interaction in a multiethnic and multicultural society; moderate acceptance of diversity, not static attitude to differences; insufficient deep knowledge about the phenomenon under study; fragmentary manifestation activity in mastering the skills of tolerant interaction; low (biased, often hidden negative attitude towards representatives of racial, national, age, religious, etc. differences; limited awareness of tolerance: lack of information (lack of awareness of the diversity of cultures, views and ways of life, which leads to stereotypes and bias), etc.).