THE MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF A COLLEGE AS AN INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCE FOR DEVELOPING NATIONAL-CIVIC IDENTITY IN TRANSPORT PROFILE CADETS

Abstract

The article examines the process of organizing a multicultural environment in a secondary vocational educational institution that fosters students’ national-civic consciousness. The purpose of this study is to develop and substantiate pedagogical conditions for organizing a multicultural educational space in a college aimed at fostering national-patriotic consciousness in transportation students. The relevance of this problem stems from the need to resolve the identified contradiction between the requirements for the college’s educational process, aimed at developing professionally significant qualities such as self-awareness, tolerance, and patriotism in maritime transport specialists, and the existing potential of a multicultural professional environment in the context of socioeconomic and political transformations, the expansion of multiculturalism, and the widespread adoption of digitalization and artificial intelligence in various spheres of life. The paper proposes a definition of the concept of “national-civic self-awareness” and conducts a detailed analysis of its content and structural organization, which allows to identify the methodological foundations for designing a multicultural educational environment that functions as an institutional tool for its formation. Practical recommendations for organizing a multicultural environment and a pedagogical assessment of the effectiveness of the applied pedagogical strategies aimed at integrating a national-civic approach into the educational process are offered.