CULTURAL SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD OF NEW CHALLENGES AND THE NEW RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TEACHER-MENTOR
Authors:   Novosibirsk Institute of Professional Skill Improvement  & Vocational Retraining of Education Workers, Bulankina N.E. 
Published: January 2024

The article focuses on finding ways and means of cultural self-determination and self-realization of a personality in the global multicultural world, carried out in terms of new challenges to leadership, new requirements of cultural authentic communication, and speech thinking, and new responsibility in the spaces of continuous professional training as a dominant value. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the axiological approach to the formation of a multicultural picture of the world of the personality in the aspect of new requirements and new responsibilities in the event-based information and educational environment of intensive interaction. Methodology and methods of research include a critical analysis of the content and technological aspects of the axiology of education – training and education, the results of which become the basis for cultivating the value aspects of a culture oriented event environment of the continuous professional development of a mentor in terms of the educational paradigm with an emphasis on the development of spiritual values and moral needs of the personality. At the same time, we associate cultural self-determination of the personality and its spiritual and moral formation with the formation of a linguistic personality in the global space of multicultures and multilingualism of the educational process and education as a whole. The positive results of the author’s longitudinal approbation and implementation of the theoretical foundations of cultural self-determination of the personality are used as a mechanism for developing a value model for the formation of a lingua didactic readiness of a foreign language teacher to implement authentic communication within the continuous professional development of leadership qualities of a teacher-mentor. The scientific significance includes a description of the application of the principles of the axiology of education in the development of the parameters of the educational environment of the interaction within the framework of a regional project to provide unified scientific and methodological support for teachers-mentors. The theoretical significance is in clarifying the concept of psychological balance as the basis for cultivating the didactic readiness of a teacher as mentoring the youth. Practical significance is in didactic and methodological reports for creating the conditions for cultural communication within additional professional programs for teachers. The results of the study. The value dominants of modeling the communicative strategies and tactics of mentoring in the space of psychological balance and positive interaction for the purpose of cultural self-determination and linguistic/speech-making activity of a mentor as a leader who responds to new challenges and new requirements of the current multicultural world are determined. In conclusion the paper states that cultural self-determination of the personality as a continuous process of linguistic/speech-making self-realization can take place at three levels – Content, Technology, and Criteria/Evaluation. This process is possible if the leading principle of the value-significant culture & historic theory of L.S. Vygotsky, regarding the role of thinking and speech in the intellectual architectonics of the teacher’s activity is observed. Leadership, communication skills as productive speech/creativity and continuity in training and professional education are the leading factors in forming the system of didactic readiness for cultural self-determination of the personality in terms of spiritual and moral education of the youth.