Wielokulturowość w perspektywie edukacji
Multiculturalism in the perspective of education

Summary/Abstract: The Authoress emphasizes that nowadays we are witnesses of huge civilization progress in the field of science, technique, interhuman communication. As a result of it contacts among different cultures become more intensive. Moreover opening the borders caused that national minorities and ethnic communities demanded its own cultural space. It caused the problems connected with ubiquity of difference and otherness, with rooted and cultivated in collective consciousness cultural and national distinction, at last with acceptance and tolerance. Multiculturalism brings not only positive and negative political and social consequences, but it also provokes questions about identity, about relation between individual and community in which he lives. We can show both positive and negative results of this phenomenon, Especially in the field of education. Multiculturalism can’t be treated only as an aim in itself. This phenomenon should serve person’s development, as well as the cultural development of each social groups. It should be based on multicultural dialogue, which basis has to be responsibility for own culture, as well as its acquaintance and fondness.

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