Pedagogical tolerance development in the process of teaching a foreign language

The paper deals with the problem of pedagogical tolerance formation by means of teaching foreign languages. Great importance and urgency of research are caused firstly by public need for tolerance which is reasonably regarded as a key to building harmonic and results oriented relationships between people (also in professional areas) and secondly by modern humanistic conception of education based on idea of careful and respectful attitude towards child’s identity in all of its socially acceptable manifestations. Pedagogical tolerance is regarded in the article as a professionally important quality, as an integral part of teacher’s ethical culture and a success factor for teaching activities. The opportunities for pedagogical tolerance development when teaching foreign languages are linked in the article with three aspects which substantially determine specifics of this discipline and its humanitarian potential. These are the conception of cultures dialog, the wide diversity of communicative practice and the possibility of axiological orientation of teaching content. Using some specially for future teachers designed tasks we show possible ways for effective development of tolerance, openness to the multicultural world, empathy, altruism, capacity for a dialogue and other personal qualities needed for keeping up a good relationship with pupils and maintaining a psychologically comfortable climate highly conducive for teaching and upbringing (also in a multi-ethic audience).

tolerance, pedagogical tolerance, intercultural tolerance, communicative tolerance, pedagogical education, job-oriented foreign language teaching