Педагогические науки/ 4. Стратегические направления реформирования системы образования

Senior teacher L.R. Sadykova

Almetyevsk State Oil Institute, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia

Multicultural environment as a factor of development of the University of an Innovative Type

Today, an increasing number of the leading universities of Russia redefines itself as a supplier of educational services, the accumulator and the conductor of advanced science-based ideas and technologies, defines for itself new super-tasks on transforming into a university of the new formation-an integrator of the interests of science and education, industry and business. Modern Technical University turns into the University of an Innovative Type, capable of solving problems in the preparation of the new generation graduates– highly-qualified specialists in their field of expertise.

Criteria and the principles of the organization of such a university include the following directions: the development of innovative education system, the result of which is to train specialists capable of providing the positive changes in their professional activity and, ultimately, in the economy and social sphere of Russia; advanced training of elite world-class specialists based on the integration of education, research and production; the development of infrastructure interaction of the University with the external environment, the formation of strategic partnerships with universities, the academic science, industry, business and government authorities.

Organization of language education in a technical college at a new level is responsible for solving the tasks indicated above when a foreign language becomes a means of academic and professional activity, means of professional self-expression and self-improvement. The foreign language used in scientific and educational environment of a separate institution among Russian and foreign teachers, researchers and students is a key factor in forming a unique system - a multicultural language environment conducive to the solution of many tasks - the transformation of the university into the center of international education and academic exchanges, training elite specialists on the principles of humanization of higher professional education.

An actual problem in the field of language education in the context of such a direction of development of modern technical university becomes effective organization of the process of learning a foreign language, including for the purpose of academic and professional intercultural communication.

The competence approach to professional education in a technical college suggests a fundamentally new approach to goal-setting of educational programs and academic disciplines. Modern educational programs, thus represent a symbiosis of foreign-language socio-cultural knowledge and skills and a group of professional knowledge and skills related to the specifics of the speciality, which is mastered by the future specialists in the field of engineering and technology. In this regard rethinking of substantial filling of language programs realized in a technical college is becoming particularly urgent where priority is not so much language training, but training of professional intercultural communication.

Transition to the new concept of organization and content of the process of learning a foreign language, the expansion of learning objectives, namely, the implementation of the principle of integration of a foreign language in their professional and educational activities - all of this dictates the need for the establishment of additional conditions and resources contributing to the achievement of the goals described above.

Formation of multicultural environment at the University is aimed at training norms of intercultural communication; the formation of ideas of the relationship between general planetary, inter-cultural and national ethics of verbal and nonverbal communication in terms of intercultural interaction; training specialists in the field of engineering and technology and teachers of technical sciences to fulfill the role of the subject of the dialogue of cultures and expansion of the scope of foreign language in academic and professional activity of teachers and students.