Abstract:

The paper deals with the problem of understanding the educational system and a teacher as a center figure in the consciousness of students and educators from different cultures: the Russian, the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatars. We consider the way people see the teacher as key importance in study process development and improvement. Thus, the research was conducted to find out basic educational processes are understood by people of different cultures from psychological, linguistic and psycholinguistic point of view. That could help to assess possible limitations and brighten the teaching in different types of educational facilities where students from various cultures are studying.

The research objectives were analyzing the education system and studying processes understanding by students and educators and teachers of different cultures to develop, modify and transform methods of teaching at universities to meet all the needs of all educational process parties. The great attention was paid to difference of education understanding among teachers, professors and students belonging to different cultural and historical traditions.

The experiment was conducted on the basis of the Crimean Engineering and Pedagogical University the named after Fevzi Yakubov, located in Simferopol, Russia and the South Ural State University, located in Chelyabinsk, Russia, from March 2020 to the March 2021. The research procedure was originally conducted in March 2020 but was prolonged due to the world pandemic crisis and the situation of distant and mixed learning at Universities. 250 full-time and part-time students and 150 professors, educators and post-graduate students participate in the survey. The research was conducted in the form of free association experiment.

Having analyzed the results of research, we have highlighted the nuclear, peripheral and single reactions, presenting the data in percentage. We see the values, national stereotypes and key concepts of each side of the education process. There are clearly presented negative and positive aspects of mixed, correspondence and distance learning forms, which are widely used at universities in the global pandemic situation, which made it possible to draw conclusions about possible transformations in teaching methods and styles.

Keywords:

educational system, linguistic consciousness, study process, consciousness, psycholinguistic, linguistics.