In recent decades, the state educational policy in Russia has changed markedly. A unified state exam has been introduced in secondary schools. The training of specialists in universities was replaced by bachelor’s and master’s degrees, destroying Soviet educational programs. A significant part of face-to-face forms of meaningful interactions have been replaced by information technologies and distance learning. All these transformations are often justified by references to the theory of cultural and historical development of higher mental functions and the psychological theory of activity. At the same time, the results of “optimization” in educational institutions of the country come into direct contradiction with these theoretical approaches and correspond to naive hypotheses that “the brain inside the brain generates the psyche with the help of the brain, based on the processing of information coming through the senses”.

The article is devoted to the actual problem of pedagogical interaction with students from China. The article reveals the characteristics of external and internal conditions that determine the specifics of adaptation of graduate students from China to study at a Russian university. The author of the article describes the methodological and psychological features of the interaction of teachers and graduate students in the classroom of pedagogical psychology in the context of intercultural communication and the use of blended learning. The necessity of training teachers for the necessary adaptation of educational activities to the personal characteristics of students from China is shown.