STUDENTS' SELF-DEVELOPMENT IN POLYCULTURAL CONTEXT

Sources of scientific understanding of the problem of self-development of a person were at all times one of the central problems of investigations. Similar position is natural as there always were and will be topical and actual the questions of formation of a person capable of constant self-perfection in any vital, cultural, economic, social, political and other circumstances. And in this case value and an urgency of the question of development, inculcation and progression of the abilities for self-development in any country are indisputable. At the same time global multiethnic issues keep going more and more problematic, complex and contradictive because of the lack of peoples' inner tolerance to multicultural (polycultural) context. The severity of the modern inter-ethnical conflicts is determined by the combination of many factors, such as: the destruction of the socio-economic, political and ideological relationships; conflicts between countries; ignoring of confessional and national ideals, values and attitudes; migration problems and other situations. Under these conditions the actuality and the significance of national cultural attitudes, valuable-symbolic aspects of national societal existence, the specific characteristics of ethnic groups are altogether essentially increased. So nowadays, the studies dedicated to the issue of multiculturalism and multi-ethnic population and the effectiveness of the interaction between different people have become an extremely important as this can help save the global integrity. In this dimension our work presents the analysis of the existing theories dedicated to the acculturation as a crucial part of multicultural (polycultural) identification and the analysis of the structure of students' self-development in the polycultural context.