Interdisciplinary convergence in the University educational environment

Authors: Pokrovskaya E. M., Raitina M. Yu., Suslova T. I.

Annotation: In the logic of the needs and interests of the modern information society, a competence profile of a technical university graduate should be formed. The authors consider the main directions of interdisciplinary convergence of competences in the scientific and educational projects of the university. The methodological basis for this is the interdisciplinary, comprehensive and competency-based approaches, practical usefulness principles focusing on personality. The article considers specific features of introduction of interdisciplinary mechanism of competences’ formation in the scientific and educational projects of the Human Science faculty of TUSUR, such as, the formation of graduates’ intercultural competence and the study of TUSUR students’ motivation potential in the learning process. The practical significance of the work lies in the fact that the relevance of a modern specialist depends on the degree of development of the cultural identity and ability to successfully interact with representatives of other cultures, as well as internal, personal factors that interfere with learning and encouraging learning are defined. Initiated and developed the socio-educational projects of the Human Science faculty of TUSUR as a coordinator for the interdisciplinary convergence of practices aimed at creating an atmosphere of tolerance and interethnic harmony in the region. The authors conclude that interdisciplinary educational effect goes beyond the cycle of human science disciplines, allowing us to talk about qualitative changes in training.

Keywords: transdisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, intercultural competence, motivational potential