Study of The Concept of Tolerance Among School Students by Foreign Scientists

The present paper deals with one of the topical problems in contemporary educational psychology that is to say, how tolerance as some kind of personological quality is developed amongst schoolchildren and how it is investigated by foreign specialists. The textbook reflects the nature of the concept of tolerance, its structural elements, and characteristics of its development in teenager’s personality according to theoretical views of theorists from Western Europe, USA and CIS. The author opposes the model of social relations as presented by G. Allport, humanistic theories that were developed by A. Maslow and C. Rogers and levels and types of tolerance (proposed among others by A.G.Asmonov, V.V.Bokoy, M.S.Mirimanova). The analysis has revealed that for the foreign scientists tolerance is as follows not only patience but a stable socio-psychological quality of man, his ability to bespeak other culture and views actively. The work has revealed the connection of the cognitive, emotional and behavioural components in the development of tolerance among schoolchildren. The scientific novelty of the article is that in it, on the basis of a generalization of foreign experience, models "pedagogy of tolerance" are systematized and proved by the possibilities their adaptation to school conditions secondary schools. The interest of active modes and reflexive practice on the development of tolerant relations between students is supported.