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The Development of Ethno-Cultural Empathy Within a Multicultural Educational Environment: Peculiarities and Role-Playing Experiences

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The World of Games: Technologies for Experimenting, Thinking, Learning (PCSF 2023)

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The paper explores the significance of ethno-cultural empathy for sociocultural adaptation of students studying in higher education institutions, primarily migrant students. Ethno-cultural empathy is of great importance for understanding cultural differences and getting rid of ethno-stereotypes. The study was carried out on a sample that included three different groups of respondents by type of ethnicity and culture. The experimental part was realized using modern research tools (IRI, M-GUD-S, SEE scales). Descriptive, correlation and factor analysis were used to process the obtained data. As a result, the fundamental components-characteristics for three groups differing in ethno-cultural indicators were identified: Russian, Chinese and Turkic-speaking. One of the basic components for the Russian sample is “personal distress”, for the Chinese sample - “relativistic evaluation”, for the Turkic-speaking respondents - the relationship between “fantasy” and “diversity of contacts”. The analysis of the results of the establishing experiment showed that representatives of the Russian culture are inclined to experience other people’s emotions, in particular, negative ones, which leads them to empathy and desire to solve their problems. Representatives of the Chinese sample experience empathy and desire to learn about a new culture against the background of ethno-cultural differences, which help them to self-determine. Regardless of the prerequisites of ethno-cultural empathy, this phenomenon directly affects the adaptation to a new environment. The article stipulates the necessity to use various forms of training and conduct various activities aimed at the formation and development of empathic abilities not only in migrant students, but also in students of the host country.

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    Fatima Valieva & Regina Fazlitdinova

  2. The Centre of Culture, Vorontsovskiy Bulvar, 14k2, St. Petersburg, 195000, Russian Federation

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Valieva, F., Fazlitdinova, R. (2023). The Development of Ethno-Cultural Empathy Within a Multicultural Educational Environment: Peculiarities and Role-Playing Experiences. In: Bylieva, D., Nordmann, A. (eds) The World of Games: Technologies for Experimenting, Thinking, Learning. PCSF 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 829. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48016-4_17

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