Intercultural competences in education

Abstract

The paper is focused on the development of intercultural competences of pedagogical workers in tertiary education. The aim is to identify academic competences in the field of intercultural knowledge and skills in the cognitive and communication style. In a multicultural environment that is shaped by the processes of globalization and internationalization and is manifested in the academic environment by an increasing number of international students on the one hand, and more frequent visits by academics to non-European regions and collaboration with foreign colleagues on scientific and publication outputs, on the other hand, a concealed prerequisite for pedagogical and research work is to overcome culturally conditioned differences in value and normative systems, interpretation schemes and communication styles. The methodology of the paper is based on the study of documents and secondary analysis of quantitative data illustrating the nature of educational needs in the area of ​​intercultural competences in the Czech Republic.