Cross-cultural competencies in modern educational environment

Abstract

The article touches upon one of the most urgent problems of modern professional education - the training of a future specialist in multicultural EE (educational environment). At present, social development requires a thorough study of the notion of ‘multicultural education’ given the necessity to educate future professionals ready to interact in a cross-cultural team. Based on such core methods of the scientific research including analysis, comparison, abstraction and generalization, the authors analyze the basic pedagogical categories that underlie this process and clarify the key concept of the research, concluding that the multicultural educational environment is a complex pedagogical phenomenon that involves the comprehensive development of the individual with a special emphasis on his/her competencies to act in a multinational society effectively.