The Development of Students’ Cross-cultural Competence in the Conditions of Transitive Society

Abstract

The study is devoted to the substantiation of the need for the development of students' cross-cultural competence at the time of transitive society: it demonstrates that the current stage of social development has an actualizing effect on the psychology of the individual due to the fact that the society and its individual representative resemble the image of two-faced Janus, when one side of the person is turned to the past and the other -to the future. Under these conditions cross-cultural competence as an activity-oriented concept, the aim of which is a social adaptation of the student's personality through the acculturation in the multicultural world, becomes a psychological and pedagogical imperative. It is noted that the cross-cultural competence in the era of postmodernism and globalization contributes to the education of students in the spirit of openness, pluralism of tastes, opinions and tolerance; at the cognitive level it is a significant expansion of cognitive space, a better understanding of both personal and other cultures. The Methodological Base of the Study: the humanistic paradigm in education and social Sciences, system, activity, cultural and personality-oriented approaches. The Research Methods: analysis and synthesis, systematization and classification, observation and generalization.The understanding of the vector of psychological and pedagogical education development in a transitive society is extremely relevant, it is caused by the general interest in the processes that unfold in society and relate to each individual, reminding him that he is determined by at least two streams of influence: the first is associated with the origin and socialization, diverse relationships with the family order, the environment, territorial community, cultural and historical roots, the second is associated with the trend of modern civilization development, which is dominated by the values of postmodern personality, emerging in the era of globalism. In short, the space of life, in which the individual is immersed, is a continuum of different cultures, ambiguous influences, a symbiosis of traditions and innovations. No less topicality, the chosen theme comes from the relevance of the general problems of the research forum -the formation of cross-cultural competence of students for whom the above-mentioned influences are more than tangible and vital: