Adaptation of young people from foreign countries based on the study of spiritual and moral subjects

¹ Don State Technical University, 1, Gagarin square, 344003, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
² Sunday School of the Holy Trinity Church of Taganrog, 344/1, Chekhova Str., 347900, Taganrog, Russia

^* Corresponding author: tamara1970@inbox.ru

Abstract

The analysis of the adaptation of the students' youth from foreign countries within Russian society and the educational environment is presented in the current research. The authors study the problem of adaptation based on the case of the Don State Technical university which is providing activities on increasing the number of foreign students. Logically this university's politics lead to the engagement of the students from many foreign countries and the gradual formation of the multicultural and multi-confessional community within the campus. Despite the engagement of a large number of the representatives of different cultures the university, namely, the Orthodox culture and theology department has established the number of innovative educational methods and educational techniques which contribute to the adaptation of the foreign youth into Russian society. These new methods are based on the establishment of spiritual and moral subjects which were integrated into the educational process. The results of the cycle of the research activities have confirmed that these methods can be effectively used for the adaptation of the foreign students within Russian society.