CULTURAL ADAPTATION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY

AuthorsAnna Kurumchina -Svetlana Lipatova

• Corporate social responsibility of university, • Cultural security in the context of cultural security

both for students and for local community• Cultural adaptation of international student.

The problem

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1) interview of international students and representatives of local community, 2) content analysis of different cultural events aimed at international students and devoted to cultural adaptation, 3) content analysis of curricula.

Methods of research

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Corporate Social Responsibility of University

According to European Commission Strategy to be socially responsible means to take responsibility for the impact that corporation makes on society.

According to the UrFU rector, ‘this university is marketed as scientific and educational, and innovative center that prepares intellectual elite, highly qualified professionals in different spheres. Ural federal university combines many interests and areas and has chosen individual values, values of education and research, principles of academic freedom, professional responsibility, team-spirit and institutional autonomy as its fundamental marks of development’ (Koksharov, 2015).

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Cultural Adaptation Anna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Cultural

Cultural security

anthropological concept aesthetic approach

cultural security explores cultural intelligence and the role of cultural property in international security.

problem in correlation with modern threats that change the ways of life

Personal culture and ability to adapt

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Research

1229 international students from 60 countries are studying in Ural Federal university.

International Students

Survey Participants Others

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SurveyParticipants of Survey

Muslims Christian Others

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Cultural Adaptation Anna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Expectations about Russians

was not justified

99,5%was not justified

Smiling Unsmiling

Caring Gloomy

Easy Don’t communicating know people English

Expectations - Reality

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Cultural stereotypes

Russians are always drunk and do not have churches

Smoking and drinking publicly women are prostitutes

Yu-Li Chen, ‘A diversified community demands that students have the adequate cross-cultural competence (CCC) to work and live with people from diverse cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, to become globally competitive, today’s students must possess certain skills to interact successfully with people who are different from themselves’

Cross-cultural competence

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Cultural Adaptation Anna Kurumchina-Svetlana Lipatova

Buddy system of UrFU

https://www.facebook.com/internationalstudenturfu

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Curricula analysis

The only subject that relates to the Russian culture is Russian as a foreign language, that had 8 ECTS for two academic years.

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Outputs - Recommendations

Language outside the university

Misunderstanding of the way of life (some pattern of behavior

Lack of curricula components/subjects about Russian culture or Cross-Cultural Competence

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Thank you.

Anna Kurumchina, PhD in Philosophy of Culture,

Associate Professor of Ural Federal University

+7 9126436358a.e,kurumchina@urfu.ru