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MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION: THE ORIGINS AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES // Pedagogical Review. 2019. Issue 3 (25). P. 106-114

The article deals with several basic problems of multicultural education which is a set of strategies and curriculum content and a site of struggle for the power to define the purposes and processes of education in a diverse and unequal world. The authors reveal the evolution of essential approaches in multicultural education due to which diverse students have the opportunity of growth and expansion in mainstream culture and the possibility to become proud of their cultural and language background and function well within their cultural communities. The authors analyze the disadvantages of lower level approaches and successful ways to stretch and complicate the meanings of contemporary multicultural education. The article presents a fundamental multicultural education principle of resting on dialog in which groups that have different power levels learn to listen and to collaborate, particularly around educational issues. As a field multicultural education offers many useful strategies and conceptual tools. The authors also characterize the challenges of multicultural education when the main goal of schools today is not a tolerant national citizen who is concerned for his or her complex democratic society but a cosmopolitan market actor who can compete effectively across state boundaries.

Keywords: multicultural education, multiculturalism, cross cultural communication, ethnical and cultural identity, social and cultural space, educational strategies