DEVELOPing CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: RESEARCH of DIRECTIONS

Lyudmila Sukhorukova¹*, Nikolay Fokin², Tatyana Shestakova³, Aleksandra Shestakova⁴

¹Prof. Dr., Southern Federal University, Russia, lsuhorukova@sfedu.ru

²Assist. Prof., Southern Federal University, Russia, nfokin@sfedu.ru

³Assist. Prof., Southern Federal University, Russia, tshestakova@sfedu.ru

⁴Southern Federal University, Russia, ashestakova@sfedu.ru

*Corresponding Author

Abstract

Relevance of transboundary and cross-border cooperation in higher education in Russia is conditioned by the state policy of complex development of border geostrategic territories in conditions of development of globalization, regionalization, growing migration flows of population, including families with children, educational mobility of students. The main idea is that nowadays a high level of conceptualization of cross-border cooperation in the training of pedagogical and managerial personnel in the sphere of education in the border area of Russia as an integral scientific and educational system is required. The aim of the research is to substantiate the research directions of managerial and pedagogical personnel training in the sphere of education, migration management in cross-border university cooperation until 2030. The methodological basis of the research is the interdisciplinary paradigm of analysis of cross-border and cross-border cooperation in education. We examine and summarize research on cross-border cooperation in education from 1993 to 2020, conduct a systematic search for theories of state border protection, borderology, discuss the results and implications for educational research and practice. The study used a content analysis of relevant 313 empirical studies published between 2017-2021, in journals included in international databases Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar, Elibrary-RINC. Research methods: theoretical analysis of psychological and pedagogical literature on the problem of research; method of modeling, design and search experiment; bibliometric methods; questioning; content analysis, expert evaluation. In our research theories, models, prospects, potentials of cross-border cooperation in the global and transboundary dimension were studied, the results of interdisciplinary study of cross-border cooperation in borderology and political science were presented. The theories, problems and models of cross-border cooperation of higher educational institutions in the post-Soviet period are highlighted. The most significant results: a) the necessity of creating potentials of federal universities to develop cross-border geostrategic cooperation in the field of education was substantiated; b) conditions and possibilities of development and implementation of master's programs of training of educational leaders relevant to the formation of cooperation with universities of border and cross-border space were systematized; c) research and educational problems of research of border and cross-border cooperation were developed. The study concludes with a discussion and formulation of new research directions of research on cross-border and transboundary cooperation in education. Information about main directions of research of transboundary and cross-border cooperation can be used when planning new scientific, educational and methodological projects.

Keywords: cross-border cooperation in higher education, federal university, education management, teaching staff.