Buzovska Y. Future navigators’ training to cross-cultural communication by means of information and communication technologies

The dissertation presents the research of the problem of future navigators’ training to cross-cultural communication by means of information and communication technologies (ICT). The essence of the phenomenon of “future navigators’ training to cross-cultural communication by means of information and communication technologies" has been defined and scientifically substantiated. The structure of the phenomenon of “future navigators’ preparedness to cross-cultural communication by means of information and communication technologies” has been analyzed and such structural components as motivational-and-cognitive, action-and-creativity-centered, and personal-and-reflexive have been defined. The criteria of the investigated construct of “future navigators’ preparedness to cross-cultural communication by means of information and communication technologies” (mindset-and-contents, operational-and-creative, and individual-and-evaluative) with the corresponding indicators have been defined, the levels of future navigators’ preparedness to cross-cultural communication (high, satisfactory, and low) have been characterized; pedagogical conditions for effective future navigators’ training to cross-cultural communication by means of ICT have been defined and substantiated (inter-subject and inter-cycle relations supply in future navigators’ training to cross-cultural communication by means of ICT in the context of socio-humanitarian and profession-oriented disciplines; availability of future navigators’ positive motivation to cross-cultural communication for achieving success with representatives of different cultures and ethnicities; activation of lecturer-facilitator role as a subject of educational process). The phenomena of “cross-cultural communication”, “future navigators’ preparedness to cross-cultural communication by means of information and communication technologies" have been clarified. The model (theoretical-integrational, practice-oriented, and practice-constructive stages) and methodology of future navigators’ training to cross-cultural communication by means of ICT have been developed, scientifically substantiated and tested, and the elective course "Cross-cultural communication of future navigators" has been developed.