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DETERMINANTS OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
Corresponding Author(s) : Yelena Bystray
Humanities & Social Sciences Reviews,
Vol. 7 No. 6 (2019): November
Abstract
Purpose of the study: The article aims to identify the determinants of intercultural education and describe their essence.
Methodology: The authors used the cluster of methods: the diagnostics of cultural identity and a foreign cultural-reflexive position in communication with representatives of other cultures, the analysis of activity-related products, rapid assessment questionnaire "Tolerance index", questionnaire. The study comprised 135 students of the South Ural State Humanitarian-Pedagogical University (Chelyabinsk, Russia).
Main Findings: The authors have determined typical features and target-oriented aspects of intercultural education and presented them in the form of a matrix. The authors have also developed and tested the course "Basics of intercultural communication", considered the formation of the cultural self-identity and foreign culture-reflexive position of students, as well as their tolerance index and types of ethnic identity.
Applications of this study: The study results can be used in teaching courses concerned with problems of intercultural communication to students of foreign language faculties, international faculties, and other humanities faculties. The research materials are of scientific significance for undergraduate and graduate students working on their dissertations.
Novelty/Originality of this study: The study novelty is as follows.: At the theoretical level, it determines the typical features and determinants of intercultural education. At the practical level, it introduces and tests the course "Fundamentals of intercultural communication". It analyzes the formation of the cultural self-identity and foreign cultural-reflexive position of students, as well as their tolerance index and types of ethnic identity.
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Bebina, O.I., Berdnikova, I.A., & Borisov, B.A. (2009). Sekrety pedagogicheskogo masterstva [Secrets of pedagogical skills]. Novosibirsk: TsRNS.
Berezina, A.V. (2015). Vliyaniye protsessov globalizatsii na formirovaniye etnotsentrizma [The impact of globalization on the formation of ethnocentrism]. Historical and socio-educational thought, 7(6-2), 152-155. https://doi.org/10.17748/2075-9908-2015-7-6/2-152-155 DOI: https://doi.org/10.17748/2075-9908-2015-7-6/2-152-155
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Erikson, E.H. (1974). Dimensions of a New Identity. Jefferson Lectures in the Humanities. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Gershunskiy, B.S. (2002). Tolerantnost v sisteme tsennostno-tselevykh prioritetov obrazovaniya [Tolerance in the system of value-oriented educational priorities]. Pedagogy, 7, 3-12.
Grishina, A.V., Zelenov, A.A., & Lunin, S.L. (2016). Diagnostika vliyaniya etnicheskoy identichnosti na formirovaniye etnicheskikh auto- i geterostereotipov u bezhentsev i vynuzhdennykh pereselentsev iz regionov lokalnykh voyennykh konfliktov i prinimayushchego naseleniya [Diagnostics of the influence of ethnic identity on the formation of ethnic auto- and heterostereotypes in refugees and internally displaced persons from regions of local military conflicts and the host population]. Moscow: CREDO.
Kalabekova, S.V. (2008). Etnotsentrizm v sovremennykh realiyakh [Ethnocentrism in modern realities]. In Politics and society, 5(132), 32-38.
Khaleyeva, I.I. (2000). O tendernykh podkhodakh k teorii obucheniya yazykam i kulturam [On gender approaches to the theory of teaching languages and cultures]. News Ros. Academ. Education, 1, 11-18.
Knapp, K. (1996). Interpersonale und interkulturelle Kommunikation [Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication] Intercultural Management, Heidelberg, 59-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-41541-2_4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-41541-2_4
Krewer, B. (1996). Kulturstandards als Mittel der Selbst- und Fremdreflexion in interkulturellen Begegnungen [Cultural standards as a means of self and external reflection in intercultural encounters]. In Psychology of intercultural action (pp. 147-164). Gottingen.
Shavayeva, M.O., & Dzamikhova, L.B. (2015). Teoreticheskoye osmysleniye kontsepta «Kulturnaya samoidentichnost» v komparativnom issledovanii [Theoretical understanding of the concept of "Cultural self-identity" in a comparative study]. In the world of scientific discoveries, 7-1(67), 223-232.
Soldatova, G.U., Kravtsova, O.A., & Khulayev, O.Ye. (2002). Psikhodiagnostika tolerantnosti [Psychodiagnostics of tolerance]. Psychologists about migrants and migration in Russia: inf. - analyte newsletter, 4, 59-65.
Thomas, A. (2003). Interkulturelle Kompetenz: Grundlagen, Probleme und Konzepte [Intercultural competence: fundamentals, problems and concepts]. Consideration, knowledge, ethics, 14(1), 137-221.
Tulelbergenova, D.Yu. (2015). Razvitiye intellektualnoy aktivnosti studenta pri ispolzovanii keys-stadi v obuchenii inostrannomu yazyku [The development of intellectual activity of a student when using case studies in teaching a foreign language]. Makhachkala.
Zasedateleva, M.G., & Belova, L.A. (2018). Formirovaniye inoyazychnoy professionalno-kommunikativnoy kompetentsii budushchikh pedagogov na osnove tekhnologii CLIL (iz opyta provedeniye pedagogicheskogo proyekta na istoricheskom fakultete) [Formation of foreign professional and communicative competence of future teachers based on the CLIL technology (from the experience of conducting a pedagogical project at the Faculty of History)]. Espacios, 39(52), 12.