Career-oriented training of students within multi-ethnic groups at pedagogical university: a new vision of the individualized education

The phenomenon of multiethnic groups is becoming an urgent issue at the university level. An increased number of mixed groups of learners from different cultures highlights the lack of appropriate methods and means of planning the educational process and requires developing a newer scientific understanding of the education individualization as a strategy for training specialists at the pedagogical university. This paper deals with the theoretical foundations of the individualization in students training in the multiethnic group. The authors have set the objectives of studying the passport of the current national project «Education» by the Russian government; of analyzing the theoretical foundations of multicultural education; of developing some new principles which are to complete the author's concept of individualization of professional training of students at the pedagogical university; of describing the culture maps as a means of individualization of education within multiethnic groups. The authors come to the conclusion that even general understanding of students’ culture-specific behaviours in the educational environment, made into the culture map for each individual multiethnic university group of the university,can help to promote mutual understanding between the subjects of the educational process, which is a factor of the outer individualization. Besides, it can help students accurately understand the professional goals of their training at a Russian pedagogical university, and motivate students to develop an active social attitudes, which is a factor of the inner individualization of training. The authors emphasise the important role of the culture-specific factors in the process of individualization of professional training of students in the multiethnic group of a pedagogical university. The results obtained in the paper can be used in education in order to increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of the Russian universities in the international education industry.