Izolacjonizm mniejszości, hybrydyzacja tożsamości i dylematy edukacji międzykulturowej

Abstract

: The article comprises an analysis of intercultural education dilemmas related to changes of both the global reality and identity. First, the author presents the main ideas of intercultural education and reconstructs the phenomenon of assimilation and isolationism of racial and ethnic minorities in contemporary multicultural societies. He recalls various contexts of enclavization, self-exlclusion, essentialism, also in the schooling system, which lead towards the confirmation of economic and cultural reproduction. The contradiction between minority isolationism and materialization of multicultural education ideas is stressed. Next, the changes of contemporary identity in relation to its hybrydization and inner cultural heterogenity are analysed. Moreover, the author presents trends in criti-cism of intercultural education, especially towards the idea of dialogue between cultures. He considers various dilemmas which result from the entanglement of intercultural education in the changes of the contemporary multicultural reality. New challenges for intercultural education are considered in the context of Co-vid-19 pandemic. In conclusion, the author emphasizes his conviction that contemporary intercultural education has a very positive developmental potential in the contemporary world.