Abstract: | The article is a kind of balance of achievements and problems of intercultural education.
It constitutes an attempt at presenting both a typology of the varieties of
multiculturalism and some examples of multiculturalism in different parts of the
world. This becomes a background for the outline of the history of multicultural
education – its aims, applied models, and effects. What is introduced as a suggestion
for overcoming the weaknesses of multicultural education is intercultural
education. A new tendency in the life of contemporary societies, which the article
refers to, is the multidimensional approach to human identity. In the environment
of globalization, European integration, democracy and respect for human rights,
the possibility to choose one’s own identity is of crucial significance. The above
mentioned issues, along with other things touched upon in the text, determine the
important tasks of intercultural education. |