Abstract
Intercultural tolerance in the structure of professionally specified components of the future specialist. This article explores the structure of professionally specified components of the individual of the future specialist and the necessity of forming intercultural tolerance as professionally significant quality of the specialist. The analysis of different scientific approaches about the requirements that are imposed on professionals of various professional sectors in modern conditions of life was done. They were classified into three groups. The first group identifies the need to form a certain future professional world with a focus on understanding the role and place of their own profession, its social significance, and professional identity and professional culture. The second group of requirements is connected with the possession of a certain amount of specialist knowledge and skills that ensure its successful operation within the professional field. The third group requires availability of socially and professionally important personal qualities of specialist which determine the success of their professional functions. The main professionally specified structural components of professionals were determined. They include the following components: professional component of worldview (understanding of the importance of the profession, the ability to analyze current processes and problems in society, knowledge of ethical and legal rules that govern their professional activity), professional orientation (formation of positive attitude to the profession, the presence of conscious motives of professional activity, the pursuit of high professional results), professional competence (professional erudition, knowledge of scientific bases of the profession), foreign language communicative competence (the technique of personal and business communication in a foreign language, the ability to formulate thoughts correctly, to build and maintain relationships with others), intercultural competence (the ability to assess the specific conditions and interactions with other cultures, to find appropriate forms of cooperation in order to maintain mutual trust), information competence (the ability to acquire knowledge independently and to develop advanced information technologies), professional and socially significant qualities (empathy, emotional stability, responsibility, diplomacy, political correctness, intercultural tolerance). The necessity of intercultural tolerance as required professionally significant quality of specialist and features of its formation during professional training was defined.
Keywords
intercultural tolerance, professional training, professionally specified components of the individual of the future specialist, professional competence, professionally and socially important qualities of the specialist