The doctoral thesis is the first attempt to give a scientific comprehension of the problem of the future agrarians’ multicultural education. Basic tendencies and peculiarities of the theory and practice of training agrarians for professional duties implementation have been investigated. The new solution of the problem of establishing constructive cross-cultural cooperation by the students of agrarian higher educational institution in the process of realizing agricultural activity and internship at foreign agrarian enterprises has been expounded.
It has been confirmed that the diversity of approaches to the interpretation of culture is determined by the interdisciplinary nature of this phenomenon, researching which the scientists actively use the achievements of anthropology, cultural studies, linguoculturology, ethnology, sociology, communicative linguistics, systems theory, semiotics and information theory. Therefore, the thesis defines the main functions of culture: humanistic, informative, epistemological, communicative, normative, axiological, significate, praxiological. Among the determinants of its functioning and development there can be distinguished the following: continuity, stability in transferring cultural traditions, originality and uniqueness, unity of the national and universal.
The typical tasks and content of the skills of the agrarian higher educational institution’ graduates have been investigated. The content and structure of training students-agrarians have been clarified. Educational and qualification requirements for multicultural education of the future agrarians have been determined. The link of forming the future agrarians’ multicultural competence and the normative content of training higher education graduates has been examined and formulated in terms of the education’s outcomes: know the legal and ethical norms for evaluating professional activities; be able to communicate in a foreign language during interaction in scientific, industrial and social-public spheres of activity; the ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the basics of philosophy, history and culture, which contribute to the development of the common culture, forming the national dignity and patriotism, personality’s socialization, propensity to ethical values; understanding of the causal relationships of the society’s development and the ability to use them in professional and social activities; use of modern scientific, technical and cultural achievements of the world civilization. On the basis of empirical experience, the methodological approaches and principles of the future agrarians’ multicultural education have been defined.
The pedagogical technology of forming the multicultural competence of the future agrarians, which covers theoretical and methodological bases and reflects the unity of the conceptual, content and procedural components, has been developed. The pedagogical conditions of the effectiveness of the pedagogical technology of forming agrarians’ multicultural competence have been determined: implementing the interactive teaching methods for increasing the internal motivation of educational activity; the organization of the educational multicultural environment as the social system of a multi-subject type at an agrarian higher educational institution; improving forms and methods of independent work; application of electronic educationally-methodological complex of forming future agrarians’ multicultural competence. The stages of the pedagogical technology of forming the future agrarians’ multicultural competence have been determined: motivation-organizational, operation-cognitive, diagnostically-oriented and analytically-efficient.
