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A Call for Cultural Awareness and Tolerance in Higher Education. The Case of Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University, North Caucasus, Russia

A Call for Cultural Awareness and Tolerance in Higher Education. The Case of Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University, North Caucasus, Russia

Autori:

Tatiana SHYRYAEVA, Lilia TRIUS

Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 255-265



How to cite this article:

Shyryaeva, T., Trius, L. (2013). A Call for Cultural Awareness and Tolerance in Higher Education. The Case of Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University, North Caucasus, Russia.Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala ,43, 255-265.



Abstract:

This paper focuses on the issue of cultural awareness and tolerance development in higher education system in Russia, at Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University (PGLU) in particular, and in the world in general. At first, we emphasize the main concern of the need for students’ familiarization with national uniqueness and attractive sides of the local population’s development and fostering intercultural understanding, awareness and tolerance. Then we present the analysis of the approaches and Russian experts’ points of view on the ways of systematizing the study of culture and determine its relation with language learning. Subsequently, we concentrate on the PSLU undertaking – an educational technology and practical tools for students training and getting practical experience in the field of intercultural communication. The hypotheses of the approach based on ethnolingua-didactic (nationality centered) methodology that assists in waking up students’ interest to the home cultures, developing cross-cultural literacy in order to make them competent and competitive participant of cross-cultural communication. In order to offer the most reliable examples of the training strategies we have included some information regarding the university education in the English language learning in the North Caucasus, Russia.

Keywords:

North Caucasus; tolerance; cultural uniqueness; local culture; intercultural communication; educational technology.


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