Ethnocultural and Ethnopsychological Principles of Working with Foreign Students

Abstract

Ethnocultural and ethnopsychological features of interaction with foreign students require the creation of certain educational technologies and creative trajectories of communication in the learning process. In this case, cognition is based on understanding as a result of cognitive operations, and education is based on “confirmation” of reality [Laing, 2002] as a condition for the formation of a professional’s personality. These are two wings for mastering independent creative flight. The purpose of the work is to demonstrate the principles of information modeling in the educational process with the cooperation of representatives of different ethnic cultures. The teaching of professional disciplines involves, depending on the subject, creative modeling of the structure, the actual algorithm and the compositional solution of effective knowledge transfer. The game principle in such modeling is expressed in the elements of the training that remove linguistic barriers. Each component of such a model is largely correlated with the content of the ethnocultural space and the ethnopsychological field of foreign students at the group and individual levels. The teacher becomes a kind of "guide" not only to the profession, but also to the culture and traditions of the country in which students receive their education. In the classroom, an intellectual atmosphere is created through the disclosure of various cultural codes that manifest themselves in the process of communication and reflect the original perception of reality. The professional worldview is formed as a result of the synthesis of ethnocultural ideas about the world, that is, monocultural concepts are fused into multicultural systems that define the individual author's handwriting of a professional.