Ethnoculturological Aspect of Educational System Development

Abstract

In the modern world, there is a steady tendency to study native languages and cultures through education. Most states are multinational; therefore, the formation of interethnic relations on the basis of a flexible national policy primarily in the field of education becomes the most important condition for the strength of the state. In the policy of teaching in the native language, the principle of local languages was formulated, embodying the requirement to teach in the local language. At the end of the 20th century, when the rise of ethnic minorities in various European states began, it became obvious that the principle of local languages equality and the right to study in their native language are two sides of the same coin. The principle of using local languages in education is also gaining popularity in those European countries where in the past representatives of the national group dominant in this state paid very little attention to the right of national (linguistic) minorities to use and study in their native language.