PEDAGOGIC ASPECTS OF A TEACHER’S PROFESSION IN PURSUANCE OF MULTICULTURAL/INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

Abstract

We can observe many people migrating and that is why societies and educational establishments become culturally diverse. Phenomenon of multiculturalism is very often connected with many processes, positive and negative as well. Adaptive-educational processes of multicultural students are not always correct. Cultural and linguistic differences have an influence on a totality of a child in school and often result in a difficult situations. Help for foreigners’ children in Poland is organized according to education law. A teacher’s cultural abilities that are visible through an attitude and a behaviour enable effective actions in multicultural situations. A teacher of multicultural education has to confront such needs and problems as cultivating somebody’s own identity, language, culture, international dialogue but also discrimination or social and cultural isolation. Training of a teacher who is going to work with a multicultural group should be focused on personality skills, sociocultural skills but also on innovative methods and forms of animating a social life in culturally diverse environment.