Development Of Professional- Psychological Characteristics Of The Teacher In A Multicultural Educational System

Modern world is characterized by increasing processes of globalization and internationalization in the spheres of economy, politics, science and culture. The population is becoming more diverse. Trough this global process, modernization of education is conducted as well. The priority of a new system is the education of younger generation in the conditions of respect, understanding and tolerance to people with cultural diversity. Multicultural education is a relatively new area of pedagogical theory and practices of educational institutions in many countries.In recent years in the pedagogical science and practice many countries, particularly Russia focus on the problem of teacher's professional development in a multicultural educational space. Scientific basis of solving the problem about matching the professionalism of the teacher and new socio-cultural conditions of Russian education can become the concept of development teacher's professional-psychological characteristics in a multicultural educational space, which includes a scientific interpretation of the phenomena of "multicultural educational environment","professional-psychological characteristics," "professional development of teachers in multicultural educational space"; a system of principles and approaches to the study of teacher's professional development in a multicultural educational space; external and internal factors determining this process; psycho-pedagogical technologies of support of teacher's professional development in a multicultural educational space.Teacher's professional development in a multicultural educational space seen as an open process of certain development of professional-psychological characteristics, which is a set of individually-psychological qualities, challenging professional competence and orientation of the individual, and providing constructive inter-ethnic relations between different ethnic communities, as well as maintenance of moral and ethical norms of a multicultural cooperation in the educational system.In the context of teacher's professional development in a multicultural educational space,regularities of this process, based on the characteristics of multicultural educational space are the conceptual valued. The specific character of the teacher's professional-psychological characteristics depends on the region of residence, stages of teachers' professional development and a level of education where implementing educational activities.Professional-psychological characteristics of teachers working in a multicultural educational space are significantly different from the professional-psychological characteristics of teachers working in a monocultural educational space. The most important teacher's characteristics for a multicultural educational space are positive ethnic identity, belonging to a traditional culture, collectivism, mobility, adaptability,intercultural and interreligious tolerance, readiness, optimism, entrepreneurship. Regional peculiarities of multicultural educational space affect on the development of teacher's professional-psychological characteristics, determining the specificity of their developing.Therefore, the leading idea of this research is the development of professional-psychological characteristics of a teacher in a multicultural educational environment. In this thesis I explored the factors and regularities of process of the development teacher's professional-psychological characteristics in a multicultural learning space, determined by regional peculiarities, stage of teacher's professional development and level of educational system where the teacher works.