PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS OF TEACHING FOREIGN STUDENTS IN THE MULTICULTURAL SPACE OF THE RUSSIAN TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The authors analyze pedagogical conditions of technical university necessary for effective training of foreign students. With the help of theoretical methods the terminological apparatus for the formation of a set of factors of the educational process ensuring its success is established. The specifics of engineering education and skills to be mastered by students upon graduation. As a result of observation and conversations with supervisors, teachers, international students and their classmates, four categories of pedagogical conditions contributing to the training and education of professional engineering personality taking into account multiculturalism and technical orientation of higher education institution were identified: socio-pedagogical, organizational and pedagogical, psychological and pedagogical and environmental. The set of pedagogical conditions of the educational environment of a technical university necessary for successful education of foreign students is modeled. It is concluded that it is necessary to introduce and develop all the above conditions that make up the educational environment of a technical university for the harmonious development of foreign students’ personality, improvement of their adaptation and professional training.