SOME PECULIARITIES OF STUDENTS’ INTERPERSONAL INTERACTIONS IN THE MULTICULTURAL AREA OF UKRAINIAN UNIVERSITIES

The article deals with the issues of pedagogical principals, functions, aims of cross cultural education, the aim of which is a formation of the person who is ready for the vital activity in a multicultural environment, to live in peace and consent with people of different nations and also to develop multicultural balance in the educational process. Provisions in the training of specialists must be based on the priorities of the universal values, the need to form a communicative multicultural competence, planetary thinking, understanding and the feeling of the personality like an integral part of a single and interconnected world, the formation of positive interpersonal relations of student youth in a multi-ethnic environment. That is, the higher school should be focused on the solution of the main task –to educate not only a specialist of high for his branch of knowledge qualification but a specialist of such a level of a polytechnic culture, who is capable of implementing positive interpersonal relationships in the conditions of multicultural environment.