Cultural awareness of academic and teaching staff in the lifelong learning context

Abstract

The importance of forming cultural awareness of academic and teaching staff is with the help of a competency-based approach, as a means of a person’s self-expression and enrichment of the possibility of scientific knowledge is emphasized in the article. Definitions of the concept of cultural awareness and its components are considered by the authors. The content of tasks for the development of cultural awareness of high school academic and teachers is disclosed. The personal traits that mostly influence the adaptation and socialization of academicians to new cultural environments are shown. Among them are: openness, communicativeness, flexibility and tolerance for uncertainty. The authors note as the necessary conditions for the formation of cultural awareness in the context of lifelong learning the development of its basic components, such as linguistic, intercultural, sociocultural and personal. The competency-based approach was used to achieve this goal. It is stated that the effectiveness of the development of cultural awareness and self-expression of teachers increases in the context of integration of culture, religion and national interests of the Ukrainians.