ARPHA Proceedings 3: 771-779, doi: 10.3897/ap.2.e0771
Project Activity as a Means of Multicultural Values Development in the Internet-Mediated Learning Environment
expand article infoE. V. Gulyaeva, Yulia G. Semikina
Open Access
Abstract
The article deals with the ways of increasing the efficiency of using the project activity for formation of multicultural values of students in terms of the modern digital educational environment and also includes analysis of the experience gained in the course of implementation of the Sharing Cultures project. Urgency of this issue is undoubted, since use of the digital educational environment in learning activity has a significant impact on formation of axiological orientations of students.The purpose of the article is to analyze the ways of increasing the efficiency of using the project activity for formation of multicultural values of students in terms of the modern digital educational environment, as well as to analyze the experience gained in the course of implementation of the Sharing Cultures project.The methodological basis of the study is the principles of the systemic and structural-functional approaches, which allowed considering the advantages of the project activity for formation of multicultural values of students in terms of digitization.The authors consistently prove that use of the project method in the course of intercultural communication not only contributes to axiological orientation of students, but also provides them with the opportunity to learn a foreign language in the natural language environment, achieve self-determination, self-actualization, self-fulfillment, socialization, form responsibility, and the ability to work independently.
Keywords
digital technology, multicultural values, project activity, digital educational environment, cross-border formation of values