The article discusses professional teaching training for tutoring and primary education at a small-scale rural school, where there are prolific opportunities for individualizing the educational process and creating conditions that foster personal development of primary schoolchildren. Educational quality is indicated by the formation of ethnocultural identity and ethnic self-knowledge; this is the basis for the development of harmonious interethnic relations in multicultural societies. The article presents a model for the development of ethnopedagogical competence in the primary school teacher, the ethnopedagogy of the educational process, and the formation of the pan-Russian civic identity as a condition for the successful implementation of the new primary school standards.
Nikolai Neustroev, doctor of Pedagogy, professor at the Department of Primary Education at the Teacher Training Institute, M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. He has been conducting research since 1980 on the history of regional primary general education, the problems and issues faced by small-scale rural and nomadic schools of the North, the training of general educators, and ethnopedagogy of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia. He has been in charge of the Department of Primary Education at the North Eastern Federal University for twenty years and is the founder of the research institute and scientific laboratory for the problems of small-scale rural schools of the Republic of Sakha. Email: neustroevnd@rambler.ru
Anna Neustroeva, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, assistant professor, head of the Department of Primary Education of the Teacher Training Institute, M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. Her interests lie in the history of primary general education, the history of vocational education of primary school teachers, professional pedagogy, the professional competence of teachers, and the problems and prospects for the development of primary general education. From 2002 to 2011 she headed the department and the faculty of primary and preschool education of Sakha State Pedagogical Academy in Yakutsk. Email: annette2001@yandex.ru
Tuyaara Shergina, candidate of Pedagogical Sciences and associate professor at the Department of Primary Education at the Teacher Training Institute, M. K. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University. Since 2015, she has been the head of the educational and scientific laboratory of ethnocultural education named after A. D. Semёnova. Her research interests are concerned with the problems and issues facing small-scale and nomadic schools of the North, ethnodidactics, the professional competence of teachers, and the problems and prospects for the development of primary general education. Email: sherginata@mail.ru