Project learning as a means of socio-cultural competence formation of university students

The article describes the possibilities of sociocultural competence formation of university students through project learning. It provides learner's formation as a meaningful subject of a sociocultural educational space in accordance with the new requirements for training of a specialist. The project learning characteristics are analyzed to maintain successful interaction between a learner and the information in sociocultural contexts. The process of sociocultural competence formation in project learning is described with the support of the mechanisms of meaning-making, which is realized through a phased introduction of sociocultural projects providing information coherence in different sociocultural contexts. There are four types of sociocultural projects presented: a mini-project, a web-quest, a web-project and a feedback-project.