The Cross-Cultural Analysis of Australia and Russia: Cultures, Small Businesses, and Crossing the Barriers

Introduction

As shown by Chernychenko (2009,2013), intercultural experience is considered a valuable contribution to personal and professional growth, especially in urban promote social growth & cohesion of HHH University (Australia, NSW), Russian State Social University, Open University for the Humanities and Economics (Russian Federation) and Petrozavodsk State University (Russian Federation, Republic of Karelia) in training teachers and social workers.

Nowadays literary review showed, in an urban environment, intercultural experience is useful in training teachers and social workers to training with students in multicultural classroom teaching. Our experience in the above mentioned team has shown that such work is especially important for the training of teachers and social workers in the city and urban environment at all levels, as Australia is recognized as a culturally diverse nation through its diverse immigration policies. Our experience in the Australian Federation has shown that Australian professional standards for graduate teachers and social workers require that teachers and graduates of social schools should have the knowledge and skills about learning strategies that meet the strengths and abilities of students in various linguistic, cultural, religious and socio-economic groups, especially in large, medium and small urban environment. In the course of our daily work, we became convinced that it is very important for teachers and social workers to be able to conduct a variety of professional experiences in different sociocultural settings and educate teachers prior to the start of training in order to understand teaching and learning in multicultural contexts and develop the student's ability to work with classes with multi-ethnic students from different cultures.