EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE CRIMEA PEOPLE'S TRADITIONS, CUSTOMS AND RITUALS

The specifics of the Crimea are determined by the population’s multi-ethnic and multi-confessional composition. In these conditions, it is important to create opportunities for the restoration and development of ethnic cultures, interaction between them in the interests of national unity. The historical past heritage of the people who live in the Crimea has a huge educational potential, namely: positive experience of people’s cooperation and friendship, contributing to ensuring civil peace, social stability and information protection of society, creating favourable psychological and pedagogical conditions for younger generations’ socialization. The educational potential of the Crimea people’s traditions, customs and rituals are realized in the education system which is the most important institution of an individual’s socialization, the leading factor in the conservation and development of national cultures and languages, ethnic identity of all people who live in the region; an effective tool for cultural and political integration of the Russian society. The integral sociocultural space of the Crimea, despite the ethnocultural diversity, is a fertile ground for the effective solution of tasks related to the search for spiritual and moral values and guidelines for younger generations since during centuries of interaction the Crimea people have developed such skills as mental compatibility of various ethnocultural communities, peaceful coexistence of ethnic groups and faiths, trust and mutual assistance of people to each other. Crimea people’s traditions, customs and rituals which include a whole complex of behaviour norms, forms of consciousness and systems of human communication with essential value are significant components of the spiritual and moral values system and guidelines.