3.4.1 Plurilingual Intercultural Creative Keys

Research Area 3. Employment and Development of Skills and Competencies  → Research Program 3.4 Multilingual and Intercultural Creative Learning

Project period

2020-2025

Context of Research Project within a Subject of Human Capital

In the era of accelerated digital transformation, the need to integrate the knowledge of an individual into the space of intercultural dialogue is obvious, which implies solidarity that excludes political, ethnic, religious and other boundaries. The main result of education is the ability to act in conditions of uncertainty and permanent displacement of planning horizons, which is facilitated by the development of soft competencies - important components of human potential.

The research project Plurilingual Intercultural Creative Keys is aimed at creating a learning system (Plurilingual Intercultural Creative Keys; PICK: https://pick.hse.ru/), aimed at the development of multilingual, intercultural and creative competencies, respectively

Project Aim

Developing scientific and methodological foundations and didactic means for the formation of systemic adaptation of students in the modern world through the actualization of their creative potential, promoting multilingualism and developing intercultural competence

Project Objectives:

1. Substantiating the mechanism to promote systemic adaptation of students in the modern world, developing, testing and implementing educational technology to create systemic adaptation of students through the actualization of their creative potential, promoting multilingualism and developing of intercultural competence
2. Developing a theoretical model of the educational system Plurilingual Intercultural Creative Keys, creating a criterion apparatus for evaluating its effectiveness, developing educational system methodologies and conducting empirical studies of their effectiveness
3. Identifying socio-pedagogical conditions to create intercultural competence, promoting multilingualism and actualizing the creative potential of students’ personalities
4. Developing and implementing a methodological system for advanced training of teaching staff for the implementation of the training program Plurilingual Intercultural Creative Keys

Key Findings

2020

Theoretical and methodological substantiation of the mechanism for the formation of systemic adaptation of students through the activation of creative potential, the promotion of multilingualism and the formation of intercultural competence has been developed, the theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of multilingualism as a factor contributing to the formation of the mechanism of systemic adaptation of students in the modern world has been carried out

2021

A theoretical model of the development of systemic adaptation through the PICK educational program (scheme, principles, criteria and performance indicators) has been developed, the first and second modules of the PICK training program for teachers have been developed

2022

The development of educational technology for systemic adaptation of students through the actualization of their creative potential, promotion of multilingualism and development of intercultural competence has been completed. The first PICK training module Creativity Gives Birth to the Creator has been implemented (developing creative competence of schoolchildren) for teachers of the Educational Institution for Children Solves Hochma (Moscow Choral Synagogue).

Educational Programs

Additional Professional Education According to the PICK System

Study Course Developing Soft Competencies: Linguistic, Intercultural and Creative. Theory and Practice

Publications

1. Kharkhurin, A. V. & Yagolkovskiy, S. R. (2021). Cultural Variations in Evaluation of Creative Work: A Comparison of Russian and Emirati Samples. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi
2. Kharkhurin, A. V. & Charkhabi, M. (2021). Preference for Complexity and Asymmetry Contributes to an Ability to Overcome Structured Imagination: Implications for Creative Perception Paradigm. Symmetry, 13(2), 343. doi
3. Lubart, T. Esposito D., Gubenko, A., & Houssemand, С. (2021). Creativity in Humans, Robots, Humbots. Creativity: Theory, Research, Application, 8(1). doi
4. Lubart T. et al. (2022). Creative Potential in Science: Conceptual and Measurement //Frontiers in Psychology. – 2022. – Т. 13. – С. 750224. doi
5. Kharkhurin A. V., Koncha V., Charkhabi M. (2023) The effects of multilingual and multicultural practices on divergent thinking. Implications for plurilingual creativity paradigm //Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. – 2023. – Т. 26. – №. 3. – С. 592-609. doi

Conferences

13th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 5-7, 2021):
- Kharkhurin, A. V., Kashirskaya, E. V., & Pasechnik, A. Plurilingual Intercultural Creative Keys (PICK): Fostering Multilingual, Intercultural, and Creative Competences through Education

International Congress of Psychology (Prague, Czech Republic, July 18-23, 2021).
- Kharkhurin, A. V. Creative Perception: Preference for Complexity and Asymmetry Contributes to Unstructured Imagination

International Symposium on Bilingualism (Warsaw, Poland, July 10-24, 2021):
- Kharkhurin, A. V. Plurilingual Creativity: Expanded Framework for Research in the Consequences of Acquisition and Use of Multiple Languages for Creative Behavior

Scientific seminar Multilingual Creativity in Action: Theoretical and Empirical Arguments in Favor of Expanding the Scope of Research on the Influence of Language Practices on Creative Behavior (RU) (Moscow, Russia, December 15, 2021)

XXII April International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow, Russia, April 4-22, 2022):
- Special session Universal Competencies as the Core of Human Potential: Formation and Evaluation (RU) within the Section Economics and Sociology of Education (05/04/2022):
Kharkhurin A. Development of Students' Creative Potential in the Context of Language Practices and Cross-Cultural Communication

Multilingual Urban Space: Policy, Identity, Education (Moscow, Russia, April 7-8, 2022):
- Kashirskaya, E. V. & Kharkhurin, A.V. How Does Plurilingualism and Creativity Prevent Emotional Burnout among Russian Students? (07/04/2022)
- Koncha,V., Kharkhurin, A. V. & Charkhabi, M. The Effects of Plurilingualism and Pluriculturalism on Creativity: Testing the Mediating Role of Tolerance and Intolerance of Ambiguity (08/04/2022)
- Erzhanova, A. H. & Kharkhurin, A.V. Why Are We Afraid of Language Learning? Sociodemographic Factors Developing Foreign Language Anxiety (07/04/2022)

17th European Congress of Psychology, (Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 5-8, 2022):
Koncha, V., Kharkhurin, A. V. & Charkhabi, M. Language Repertoire Moderates Contribution of the Multicultural Experience and Intercultural Competence to Divergent Thinking: Empirical Evidence for Plurilingual Creativity Paradigm

SOU Creativity conference (Ashland, USA, July 6, 2022):
- Koncha, V., Kharkhurin, A. V. & Charkhabi, M. The Effects of Plurilingualism and Pluriculturalism on Creativity: Testing the Mediating role of Tolerance and Intolerance of Ambiguity

Marconi Institute for Creativity Conference, (Bologna, Italy, August 31 – September 2, 2022):
- Kharkhurin, A. V., Belova, S. S., Kashirskaya, E. V., & Koncha, V. Creativity, Language Repertoire and Multicultural Experience as Factors Affecting Burnout in University Students

Marconi Institute for Creativity Conference (Bologna, Italy, September August 31 – September 2, 2022):
- Koncha. V., Kharkhurin, A.V. & Charkhabi, M. (). Immersing into Plurilingual Creativity: The Interactive Effects of Language Repertoire, Multicultural Experience and Intercultural Competence on Creative Characteristics and Creative Motivation
- Erzhanova, A. H. & Kharkhurin, A. V. Contribution of Creative Personality and Big Five Personality Traits to Foreign Language Anxiety