The Features of Polycultural Education in the Process of Foreign Student’s Adaptation

Abstract

ntroduction. The article deals with the es-sential characteristics of multicultural education, which should be applied to the modern methods of foreign stu-dent adaptive preparation, who interacts with the repre-sentatives of the new cultural environment. Purpose. To explore the features of multicultural edu-cation aimed at foreign student’s preparing for practical activities of academic and social nature. Results. It is revealed that multicultural education is manifests in the peculiarities of persons, connections who are the representatives of different linguistic, ethnic or national groups. The concept of global thinking, that char-acterized by the ability of a foreign student to practically apply the existing socio-cultural skills and interpersonal activity, is considered. On the analysis of the researchers findings, the own interpretation of the concepts of «multi-cultural education» and «technology of multicultural educa-tion» is given.Conclusion. On the base of theoretical study, we con-cluded that multicultural education provides the need of adaptation process in the ways that will ensure the full activity of the individual in the academic and social envi-ronments: the preparation of linguistic, cultural and psy-chological character. In addition, the adaptation involves the development of global thinking principles, through which a foreign student is able to use the formed interper-sonal and sociocultural skills in a specific situations of interaction with representatives of another society. In this connection, it is possible to distinguish the main manifes-tations of multicultural education, which should be used in the process of acculturation preparation, such as: the use, with the practical information giving on the character-istics of other cultures, of practical elements, among which the audiovisual means may be used; the students' cultur-al knowledge developing in the way to ensure a uniform interpretation of the actions of other cultures representa-tives and will allow to prepare the foreign students for activities in the host country's cultural space; the practical consolidation of the acquired knowledge both through the cross-adaptation (with the interaction of different cultural groups during the preparation phase), and at the time of the formation of adaptation tasks that will provide a con-nection between the academic and social contacts of the individual.