A MULTICULTURAL COLLEGE SPACE AS A CONDITION FOR DEVELOPING NATIONAL-PATRIOTIC SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS IN TRANSPORTATION STUDENTS

Abstract

The article examines the process of organizing a multicultural space in a secondary vocational educational institution that fosters students’ national patriotic self-awareness. The objective of the 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 researcher proposes a definition of the concept of “national patriotic 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 current pedagogical strategies aimed at integrating a national patriotic approach into the educational process are offered.