Sloboda, jednakosti i multikulturalno obrazovanje

Abstract

Multikulturalno obrazovanje je široko područje, složeno koliko i sam multikulturalizam. Može se definisati na različite načine: kao koncept, ideal, kao reformski pokret ili kao okvir za reorganizaciju školskog sistema. Takođe, postoje različiti pristupi multikulturalnom obrazovanju u okviru kojih su otvorena mnoga pitanja i protivurečnosti, teorijske i praktične prirode, koje tek treba da se razreše. Jedna od njih odnosi se na vrednosti na kojima je koncept zasnovan, kao što su jednakost i sloboda. Protivurečnosti, između i u okviru ovih vrednosti, imaju snažan uticaj na obrazovnu praksu. Ovim radom ne plediramo da ponudimo sveobuhvatne odgovore na sva pitanja koja su karakteristična za koncept multikulturalnog obrazovanja. Namera nam je da, u kontekstu procesa globalizacije, naglasimo potrebu zasnivanja ukupnog procesa obrazovanja na principima multikulturalnog obrazovanja.

Multicultural education is a broad area as complex as multiculturalism itself is. Multicultural education can be defined in various ways: as a concept, as an ideal, as reform movement or as an effort to restructure school system. There are many approaches to multicultural education as well. However determined, the phenomenon of multicultural education has yet many issues and contradictions of theoretical and practical nature to resolve. Some of the concerns regard the very values upon the concept is founded, equity and freedom for example. There are several contradictions among and within these values that manifest their potential when faced with the reality of education practice. The paper does not propose to offer answers to profound questions which may be posed to the multicultural education concept; rather, it aims to raise some issues which will be encountered in education, in view of the growing needs for multicultural education principles in the increasingly globalised world.