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Minorities and multicultural education at universities
Minorities and multicultural education at universities

Author(s): Alexandra Hochmanová
Subject(s): Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Fakulta veřejných politik
Keywords: multiculturalism; multicultural education; legal education; legal culture; minorities

Summary/Abstract: The author addresses on a multidisciplinary platform and from the theoretical legal and philosophical legal perspective the issue of minorities and multicultural education at universities. Through its criticism she reveals the emptiness and confusion of the concepts of social sciences and humanitarian disciplines and brings to light the ‘asset stripping’ of the normative systems. Multiculturalism in the context of a value-based university education is presented as relativism applied in the field of the social sciences with repercussions on social engineering and complete transformation of cultural and social values. Her conclusions about value perception and interpretation of multidisciplinary concepts of multiculturalism unearth in the final analysis concurrent processes leading to ideologization of scholarly disciplines and in particular law, which ceases to be a value and becomes a means used by the power structures of the globalized world.

  • Issue Year: 5/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 79-86
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English