Philosophical premises of multi-cultural change in Polish school versus educational practice. Management of cultural diversity or multi-cultural chaos?
Journal Title: Journal of Intercultural Management - Year 2012, Vol 4, Issue 3
Abstract
It’s not hard to realize, how composite and complicated is contemporary,global world. Almost every conceptual categories changed their primary meaning andthe grounds of the “western” constructional thinking are faltering in their positionsguards the colonization social order and conduces the world Europeanization.Modernistic discourse presupposed that school knowledge has got a neutral character,exist out of the history or politics, and lack of the access to it, is equal to the lack ofthe “civilization”. Authors try to show how globalization, mobility and all types ofmigrations changed the way of breeding, learning and managing of this learning. Wealso wants show, how many foreigner children are in Polish educational system now,and try to answer the question how should school help them and their parents especiallyin situation, when, there are not experts engaging multiculturalism, who could teachteachers how have they functioning in multicultural class, and how organize work invarious learning environment.
Authors and Affiliations
Marcelina Szumer, Paweł Wieczorek
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