Abstract
The present article continues the cycle of social cohesion re-search in education and society. In order to research the main principlesof organized society, the main foundations of social cohesion and their ap-plications in the educational sphere are very important. The main goalof the article is to consider the intercultural aspect of social cohesion andto provide intercultural study in the university community. This studystarts with the 눿rst diagnostics of the cognitive focuses of interculturalcommunications in the university community of the National PedagogicalDragomanov University. Cultural diversity is considered the foundationand the central part of intercultural studies. The purpose of the study isto provide a conceptualization of cognitive focuses in intercultural commu-nications, to determine the actual level of intercultural competence, to testthe author’s questionnaire, and to determine the further steps for enhanc-ing intercultural communications in the educational community. Methodsthat were used in the study are the author’s questionnaire, math analyt-ics, etc. There were 272 persons interviewed at the National PedagogicalDragomanov University, namely 230 students and 42 teachers. Accordingto the research results, the level of intercultural competence of studentsand teachers is relatively high, and all indicators are above average, whichpositively characterizes the attitude of students and teachers of the uni-versity to other cultures, their perception of other cultures, tolerance andwillingness to cooperate and combine cultural activities. This is impor-tant at this time, because Ukraine is on the path to European integration,bravely defending its own choice, where one of the main values is respectand acceptance of cultural diversity.
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