Міжкультурна компетентність в умовах інтернаціоналізації вищої освіти

Abstract

The article analyses higher education internationalisation processes in Ukraine, that is aimed at ensuring its quality through the implementation of international standards of education, academic mobility of students and teachers, international scientific events and projects, joint research with scientists from foreign universities. The development of higher education internationalisation and academic mobility in Ukraine, based on the processes of intercultural communication, should contribute to the formation of professional competence of students, preparation of young people for life, learning and work in multilingual and multicultural world. Intercultural competence involves knowledge of the characteristics of another culture and its values, the specifics of the process of intercultural communication with representatives of other cultures, the ability to establish intercultural interaction on the basis of tolerance for differences in the communicative behaviour of its participants. For effective international cooperation it is necessary to acquire the ability to promptly and flexibly choose foreign language tools according to the rules of intercultural communication. A high level of knowledge in foreign language, especially English as a language of international communication, in the context of higher education internationalisation ensures the acquisition of quality education and further self-realization of students and teaching staff. Academic mobility is an integral feature of modern higher education. The intensity of international communication is evidenced by the active mobility of students and teachers, the increase in academic exchanges between higher education institutions, joint scientific events and projects, research and publications of academia in the world. The task of developing the internationalization of higher education and academic mobility in Ukraine is particularly relevant in connection with the implementation of the provisions and principles of the Bologna process aimed at ensuring the quality of higher education, the formation of intercultural and professional competence of students. In the context of internationalization of higher education, future participants of academic mobility should acquire intercultural competence, which implies knowledge about the characteristics of another culture and its values, the specifics of the process of intercultural communication with representatives of other cultures, the ability to establish intercultural interaction on the basis of tolerance of participants to differences.