Intercultural competence of teachers as a resource of sociocultural modernization of education

The research problem and the rationale for its relevance. An urgent task for Russian education is to identify development potentials and sociocultural modernization. A promising direction of the sociocultural modernization of education may be the advanced training of teachers on intercultural competency development programs. The need for advanced training of teachers on intercultural competency development programs is an obvious solution for the prospects of sociocultural modernization of education. Any changes in the social sphere require changes in the social activities of its participants. Education is a social sphere with the leading role of teachers - the sociocultural modernization of education is impossible without changing the professional competence of teachers. The development of intercultural competence is one of the important conditions for matching the current sociocultural situation. The goal of research. The definition of the content of intercultural competence, based on the analysis of existing programs for improving social competence, to create teacher development programs as an additional condition conducive to sociocultural modernization of education...