THE СRITERIA AND LEVELS OF FORMATION OF PROFESSIONAL JUNIOR BACHELORS’ MULTICULTURAL COMPETENCY IN THE PROCESS OF HUMANITARIAN TRAINING IN A COLLEGE

One of the primary and urgent tasks of modern education nowadays is the upbringing of a highly spiritual, creative and intellectually developed personality. It has become very important for our country and for many countries of the world. Preservation of the unique spiritual and cultural heritage of each ethnic group, each people and at the same time the formation of each person’s multicultural competency, which contributes to the understanding and solution of modern ethical, aesthetic and technological problems, has become a priority in the training of future specialists.The use of innovative approaches to education in general and pre-higher education in particular and updating its content are due to the current state of multicultural development of the Ukrainian society, the new requirements for the training of competitive workers and the level of their professional training. Improving specialists’ professional qualifications modern education makes it closer to the needs of the labor market. Education seekers’, in our study professional junior bachelors’ cultural training and level of professional training put forward certain requirements for quality education today among which we can name their social activity, readiness to communicate in a modern multicultural society and the ability to acquire multicultural experience.The level of future specialists’ multicultural competency is determined by their moral maturity, general culture and the development of their intellectual abilities.Fostering junior bachelor professionals’ multicultural competency supposes two interconnected parts. Firstly, it is necessary to equip them to effectively function in a multicultural society. Secondly to train them to apply multicultural education principles in their future teaching roles. This demands a focus on developing their professional readiness for diverse cultural environments and their pedagogical ability to manage a classroom that is multicultural. This means it is nessessary to promote respect, collaboration and inclusivity towards people with different cultural backgrounds. Preparation for different activities in a multicultural society and pedagogical preparation for the implementation of the educational process in the future based on the principles of multicultural education are two interrelated aspects of the process of forming junior bachelors professionals’ multicultural competency. It is important to create a model of the formation of multicultural competency in an educational institution as there is a need to possess it in the conditions of a modern world society. The structural components of the process of forming multicultural competency of future specialists make the basis of this model which serves as a theoretical model containing a complex of interconnected elements of the educational process. It ensures the formation of a system of future professionals’ multicultural knowledge and skills. For this we use certain principles, forms, methods, and means of humanitarian training in the educational process. To reveal the features of the structure, that is, what elements and stages the process of training specialists consists of, the sequence and connection of these elements and the features of building the content of this process in general define the aim of the research. The criteria and levels of formation of multicultural competency are very important structural components of the building of its model.