Keyword: «individualism-collectivism»

The article is devoted to the issues of training foreign military specialists in a Russian military university. The relevance of this study is due to the growing influence of globalization processes on the educational environment of a military university, causing the transformation of the usual forms and models of education. Along with the psychological, social, pedagogical and philosophical aspects of cross-cultural didactics, the cultural aspect is of great importance. According to the author, education as a projection of culture reflects the specificity of the cultural consciousness of the educational process subjects. The article reveals the problems of cross-cultural didactics on the example of the influence of the cultural parameter "individualism / collectivism" on the educational process. The aim of the study is to analyze the didactic aspect of the cultural parameter “individualism / collectivism” in the context of training foreign servicemen in a Russian military university. The study is grounded on a comparative approach based on an improved parametric model of culture by the Dutch scientist G. Hofstede, as well as on scientific research in recent years. The results of the study allow us to conclude about the specifics of designing productive learning in a multicultural classroom. The typified methods of obtaining and assimilating new knowledge, skills and abilities, developed by foreign servicemen in their native country under the influence of the individual or group traits dominance in their culture, are the most important factor in building the principles of organizing training. Semantic distortions in the educational communication of a multicultural group, the dissatisfaction of foreign students with the final result of the educational process, the loss of their usual system of values and emotional discomfort resulted from the conflict of cultures complicate their learning. Educational and pedagogical interaction in a heterogeneous group makes the teacher to solve the task of overcoming the "resistance" of cultural indicators in the educational process, which requires the teacher to quickly adapt to the conditions of the multicultural entropy of the academic group and his/her developed cultural intelligence. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the generalization of scientific experience in the study of the parameter "individualism / collectivism" in education. The practical orientation of the work can be traced in the author's recommendations on the selection of culturally determined methods of training foreign military specialists and finding the vector of educational process effectiveness.