The problem statement in general. The processes of globalization and humanization of the world are two determinant and contradictory phenomena of modernity. On the one hand, the process of globalization unites peoples, and on the other, it threatens unification, erasing cultural identity. A modern person must be prepared to live in a multinational multicultural environment. The problems of multicultural education, formation of human and national self-consciousness, civic position are among the

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... riorities in the process of humanization of human society. The current state of development of higher education in Ukraine requires new approaches to the organization of the educational process, adjustment, and implementation of organizational, educational, social and psychological mechanisms that could ensure the fulfillment of tasks, and are of primary importance for educators. In implementing these tasks professionalism of future pedagogues, their competence, and authority play an important role. Future educators perform diverse, meaningful tasks, and in order to solve them, they must have deep, systematic, psycho-ped-