Management of formation of intercultural communicative competence of future heads of general secondary education institutions

The article considers the approaches to managing the formation of
intercultural communicative competence in general secondary education future
leaders’ intercultural communicative competence. The state of the problem elaboration
regarding managing the formation of intercultural communicative competence in
future heads of general secondary education institutions in pedagogical theory and
practice is also analyzed; the specifics of the need for international cooperation are
determined; criteria, indicators, components are singled out; levels of the specified
problem are characterized; pedagogical conditions for managing the formation of
intercultural communicative competence is theoretically substantiated and
experimentally tested. An analysis of the concept of “management of the formation of
intercultural communicative competence in future leaders of general secondary
education” is carried out. The introduction of the special course “Management of the
formation of intercultural communicative competence of modern leaders of school”
into the process of professional training of the future heads is substantiated. It is built
on the basis of educational material’s synthesis and integration of fundamental and
professionally-oriented disciplines of intercultural communicative competence’s
problem. The main special course's theoretical provisions have practical orientation
related to the introduction of teaching and training interactive methods that contribute
to the implementation of a person-centered approach to higher education. Analysis of
the research and experimental work’s results showed that the experimental group
manifested the level of readiness of general secondary education’s future leaders to the
process of managing the intercultural communicative competence formation cut from
low to high; in the control group, this figure increased from low to medium.