PICULIARITIES OF THE PROCESS OF FORMING PROFESSIONAL PREPAREDNESS OF THE HIGHER SCHOOL TEACHERS FOR INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE UNIVERSITY


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The growing number of foreign students in universities around the world creates new requirements for the training of scientific and pedagogical employees. The teaching staff is facing new problems associated with differences in understanding the social position of a teacher and a student in different cultures; relevance (applicability) of the study course contents; peculiarities of cognitive abilities of students; various models of "student - teacher" and "student - student" interaction in different cultural contexts. To solve these problems it is required that the academic staff should be professionally prepared for internationalization of the university. This article examines the requirements for scientific and pedagogical personnel, requirements for professional work in international student groups. The main directions of internal internationalization from the standpoint of scientific and pedagogical workers are the following: the impact of cultural diversity, internationalization of educational programs and curricula, and determination of teaching and learning characteristics in the multicultural environment. The author studies the peculiarities of the proper perception and understanding of other cultures; development of the ability to communicate and interact with people having different cultural and educational experience as mandatory conditions of teaching and learning in multicultural environment. The article describes the knowledge, skills, typical attitude of teachers and students to the learning process, as well as the requirements for the development of the programs on internationalization of universities, aimed at creating awareness among university leaders about the specific qualities and skills needed for work in the international academic environment, to be used in identification of significant differences related to selection of personnel and organization of professional development of the existing staff, emphasizing for the students the added value of training in cross-cultural environment.

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Anton Igorevich Kutuzov

Togliatti State University, Togliatti

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Email: Ant.kutuzov@gmail.com

director of the Center of marketing of educational services

Russian Federation

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