Phycologists are developing an adaptation programme for children from reindeer-breeder families attending boarding schools, according to TASS. Specialists from Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg took as a basis research conducted in Tundra of the Tazov Region in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.
New methodology is to help children from indigenous small-numbered Northern peoples’ families to overcome the most important psychological difficulties, among them are poor academic progress, fear of progress tests, stress before exams, low interest to the school subjects.
Reindeer-breeders’ kids study at boarding schools located in rather big populated areas. The young students have to be picked up by helicopters from the distant locations their nomad parents move.
Scientists studied carefully all the peculiarities of the "tundra kids". It was found out that climate, nature, biological and neurophysiological factors put an influence on their behavior. The main directions of adaptation process were worked out taking into account all the results of their research studies.
Over 40 thousand representatives of indigenous northern minorities inhabit the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, less than a half of them are nomads. Around 4 thousand children live in tundra with their parents. All of them attend boarding schools.
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