Development of cultural-value competence in international students at universities: the eastern vector
DOI: 10.23951/1609-624X-2026-5-36-45
This article examines the development of cultural and value competence in foreign citizens from Eastern countries in the context of developing educational cooperation with these countries. In this regard, the authors present theoretical foundations for changing the multicultural educational environment, which is one of the conditions for developing cultural and value competence. The authors also outline emerging practices for changing the multicultural educational environment at two Moscow universities (the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation and the University of Science and Technology MISIS). This article analyzes the concept of “cultural and value competence” and concludes on the importance of using practice-oriented approaches to develop cultural and value competence. The article demonstrates the potential of context-competence and task-based approaches as leading practice-oriented approaches that can be successfully applied in the development of cultural and value competence. Based on these two approaches, examples of professional tasks are presented that aim to develop the individual within the professional, social, and sociocultural environment. The authors of the article demonstrate the potential of the causality funnel method and foresight forecasting, the interplay of which involves moving from the analysis of multiple heterogeneous factors to the formation of a narrow, focused image of future scenarios for the development of cultural and value competence in international students. In the discussion questions, the authors of the article outline the potential of applying the foresight forecasting method (a method for modeling the future in the near and long term) to the development of cultural and value competence in international students from Eastern countries. The immediate prospects are based on the implementation of the concepts of the context-competence and task-based approaches. Long-term prospects may lie in identifying the value foundations for designing a model for developing the cultural and value competence of international students from Eastern countries. To identify these foundations, the authors used V.A. Yadov’s classification, which includes the following hierarchy of values: valuesideals and values-norms; values-goals; and values-means. The article concludes by presenting research prospects related to identifying levels of cultural and value competence and defining the specifics of implementing a model for developing cultural and value competence in international students from Eastern countries.
Keywords: multicultural educational environment, cultural and value competence, contextual-competence approach, task-based approach, causality funnel method, professional task, foresight forecast
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