Title: The Dialogue of Academic Cultures in the International Tertiary Classroom: What Are the 21st Century Realities, Pitfalls and Future Perspectives?
Stream: Culture and Language
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Victoria Safonova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Abstract:
Today’s academic communication includes both: global and “local” culture-embedded characteristics of international human interaction. The Pan-European model of academic communication seems to be on the way to re-shape the landscape of Russian Humanities Education, as the transition to this model of international co-operation is thought to be unavoidable for the purposes of ensuring Russian researchers’ efficient academic cooperation on equal terms with their foreign peers in the fields of teaching Humanities. Still, Russian academic traditions have their own values and should not be underestimated by educators. Then, a question arises: how to marry the global and culture-specific modes of academic communication in the internationally-oriented university classroom?
In my presentation I will try to answer this question. First, I will frame the concept of the dialogue of academic cultures as a didactic notion and characterize its interdisciplinary values in terms of training degree students for international cooperation in the context of Intercultural Dialogue (White Paper, 2008) & with the view to Open Education, Open Science and Open Innovations (Europe’s Future: …Reflection of the RISE Group, 2017). Then, I will move to the most common cognitive and communicative barriers to the Russian researchers’ communication with their foreign peers. Finally, I will focus on some practical issues of interdisciplinary co-operation in developing researchers’ bilingual pragmatic competences and pluricultural mediation competences without which it is doubtful that any efficient international partnership can ever happen. This presentation will feature the MSU research project on intercultural communication training for degree students through co-studied Humanity subjects.
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