APPLICATION OF PROBLEM-SOLVING STRATEGIES UNDER CONDITION OF PARTICIPATING IN EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

Abstract

According to UNESCO, in 2010, 3.6 million students have completed higher education outside their home country. For comparison, in 2000, about 2 million students were studying abroad in the world, and their estimated number will reach 5.8 million in 2020 [Santiago P., Tremblay K., Basri E., Arnal E., 2008]. The number of students studying abroad (including exchange programs), the desire to provide and improve the level of educational services related to the admission of foreign students, necessitates the study of the problems the exchange students encounter, encourages the analysis of theory and practice of applying behavioral forms that can help exchange students to overcome the barriers while studying and staying abroad. By "exchange students," we mean the social phenomenon, status, and process of gaining knowledge and skills in a non-national institution of study and characterize their social feeling as a marginal state [Samarska L., 2017]. The social feeling of a student abroad is characterized by a marginal state: the influence of another culture, traditions, behaviors and the need to adhere to the values, norms and rules of the host country; the necessity of adjusting their routine to a new model or finding acceptable substitutes; building an alternative to the permanent and habitual image of the self (including the level of one's own educational aspirations and limitations).