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				<p>The aim of this article was to address the subject of intercultural education under­stood as a problem, which, in the process of educating students who will become teachers, should be taken into consideration in such a scope to make sure that the future teachers can support their pupils in the formation of desired attitudes and behaviours in their relations with individuals of different cultural, national and ethnic backgrounds. The first section deals with the importance of intercultural education in the context of the meaning of the following terms: multiculturalism, culture and education. It refers to selected scopes and interpretation of interculturalism and intercultural education. Within such a framework, the problem of the importance of and the need for intercultural education is discussed based on the opinions of peda­gogy students and according to the results of the author’s own surveys conducted at the University of Opole (UO) and the Slovakia-based University of Žilina (UŽ) during the academic year of 2016-2017.</p>
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The aim of this article was to address the subject of intercultural education under­stood as a problem, which, in the process of educating students who will become teachers, should be taken into consideration in such a scope to make sure that the future teachers can support their pupils in the formation of desired attitudes and behaviours in their relations with individuals of different cultural, national and ethnic backgrounds. The first section deals with the importance of intercultural education in the context of the meaning of the following terms: multiculturalism, culture and education. It refers to selected scopes and interpretation of interculturalism and intercultural education. Within such a framework, the problem of the importance of and the need for intercultural education is discussed based on the opinions of peda­gogy students and according to the results of the author’s own surveys conducted at the University of Opole (UO) and the Slovakia-based University of Žilina (UŽ) during the academic year of 2016-2017.

Importance of and need for intercultural education according to students: future teachers

Polish Journal of Educational  Studies

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The aim of this article was to address the subject of intercultural education under­stood as a problem, which, in the process of educating students who will...

Importance of and need for intercultural education according to students: future teachers

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 212 - 228

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/poljes-2018-0017

Keywords
intercultural education, multiculturalism, interculturalism, students - future teachers, surveys

© 2019 Katarzyna Wereszczyńska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Importance of and need for intercultural education according to students: future teachers

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 212 - 228

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/poljes-2018-0017

Keywordsintercultural education, multiculturalism, interculturalism, students - future teach­ers, surveys

© 2019 Katarzyna Wereszczyńska, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
intercultural education, multiculturalism, interculturalism, students - future teachers, surveys