ETHNICAL DIVERSITY AND TOLERANCE: EXPERIENCE OF SOLVING THE PROBLEMS IN THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF SAINT-PETERSBURG Chairman of the Committee of Education of Saint-Petersburg Olga Ivanova

2 Saint - Petersburg is a multicultural and multiconfessional city At present in Saint-Petersburg there are: representatives of more than 130 nationalities 45 ethnic groups with the participation rate of 500 persons each about 300 national public associations

3 «The Program of harmonization of interethnic and cultural relations, prophylaxis of xenophobia display, strengthening tolerance in Saint-Petersburg for years» The main aim - The main aim - to strengthen the tolerant environment in Saint-Petersburg via the values of multicultural Russian society, common Russian civic identity and Saint - Petersburg cultural self-consciousness, the principals of maintenance of the human rights and freedoms.

4 The city experiment on the topic «The problem of mastering of Russian language and adaptation of the migrant children at school» the educational module program of in-service training for the teachers of Russian language and literature, the program of in-service training for homeroom teachers of general schools, the program of extended education for primary school («Russian language through games and pictures», «A storeroom of patterns»), vocabularies in Armenian, Georgian, Azerbaijani languages, the system of corrective exercises on Russian language

5 I n- service training of teachers «Protest youth movements and the problems of youth extremism prophylaxis», «The problems of tolerance development in the up-to-date school», «Youth subcultures: the problems of intolerance», «Psychology of tolerance», «Multinational Saint-Petersburg», «How are the national and ethnic stereotypes formed?», «Tolerance as the condition of multicultural communication», «Interactive methods of developing tolerance in pupils», «Cultural tolerance as a factor of personal becoming».

6 International Projects November 2007 within «The lessons of Holocaust - the way to tolerance» In November 2007 within the festival of the of tolerance and the Days of memorizing of the victims of Holocaust in the House of Jewish culture a seminar «The lessons of Holocaust - the way to tolerance» took place. January-February 2008 «One soldier does make a battle» During January-February 2008 together with the Swedish consulate and Israelite cultural center in the Museum of the political history a seminar «One soldier does make a battle», devoted to life and activity of Vallenberg. December2007 multicultural communication In December 2007 together with the Austrian agency “KulturKontact Austria” a seminar on multicultural communication took place. ecological and artistic education Collaboration between 27 schools of Saint-Petersburg and 30 schools of Helsinki in the field of ecological and artistic education a project of the schools of special education Since 2007 within the agreement between the Committee of Education of Saint-Petersburg and the Department of Education of Helsinki a project of the schools of special education has been realized

8 Cooperation with parents Joint work on lexical-grammar minimum Holidays of ethnic cuisine Days of native language Days of national cultures

9 Projects and competitions «ABC of tolerance» «Multifaced Saint -Petersburg» «History and modern times of multinational city» «Informational school recourses as a tool of tolerance development»

Projects and competitions «The environment of tolerance» «The backgrounds of tolerance in the Slavonic culture» «Self-improvement through accepting others» «The language of our communication» «Upbringing of interethnic and inter-confessional tolerance» «Upbringing of the tolerance by the means of the dialogue of cultures»

11 For cultural capital- the culture of the world

12 Using the cultural environment of Saint-Petersburg The program for preschool educational institutions «A child in XXI century. Upbringing with culture» Is realized together with the museums of Saint-Petersburg

13 «Ethnic calendar of Saint-Petersburg» 44 educational institutions from 14 regions of Saint-Petersburg took part in the experiment 148 open activities were held from January till May 2008 (instead of 90 which had been planned) in 75% of schools all teachers of primary education and pupils worked with Ethnic calendar