The role of the media in solving the adaptation problems of foreign students to the conditions of a Russian higher educational institution
In: Social'naja politika i social'noe partnerstvo (Social Policy and Social Partnership), Heft 1, S. 36-41
The article highlights the issues related to the problems of adaptation of foreign students to cultural norms and values cultivated in Russia. As one of the alternatives for overcoming adaptation problems, the authors suggested using the media. Based on the results of a questionnaire survey conducted with a study group of foreign students from the Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I. N. Ulyanov, the main adaptation problems are described, and the role of the media in their solution is indicated. In the process of researching the topic, the authors of the article came to the conclusion that the impact of media institutions on the foreign students' problems of adaptation contributes to their resolution.