Intercultural Education as a Factor of Realization of the Rights of People

Volodymir Yevtukh

doi:10.35765/pk.2023.410202.05

Volodymir Yevtukh National Pedagogical Dragomanov University Multicultural https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2746-2283

DOI: https://doi.org/10.35765/pk.2023.410202.05

Keywords: human rights, human cultural rights, multiculturalism, interculturalism multicultural/intercultural education, ethnic interaction, specific pedagogical concepts, pedagogical systems

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of the role of multicultural/intercultural education in ensuring the cultural rights of the bearers of various traditions in the process of their interaction in an ethnically diverse human environment. The hypothesis of the publication is the following: multicultural/intercultural education forms (builds) a platform for the realization of cultural rights of representatives of various ethnic communities in the process of their interaction, preventing the violation of their rights. Clarifying the content of the concepts of multicultural education and intercultural education begins with exposing the content of the concepts of multiculturalism and interculturalism.

The content of the concept of ethnic interaction as well as the structure of this phenomenon is presented. The etymology of multicultural/intercultural education and its contemporary value is discussed.

The author concludes that the practice of multicultural/intercultural education in North American and European countries has proven its viability in forming a platform for ensuring equal opportunities for the realization of the cultural rights of the bearers of various ethnocultural traditions and ways of life, particularly in the educational process. It opens up opportunities for equal ethnic interaction at the level of minority groups and at the level of minorities and the majority – the mainstream of the country of residence – and helps to avoid violations of their rights thanks the exclusion of prejudices, getting to know each other better. As a result, opportunities for interaction in the plane of psychological perception replace the paradigm of opposition “we-they (strangers)” with the paradigm of compromise “we-they (others).”

The prospects for the development of multicultural/intercultural education for Ukraine are analyzed in the context of conflict-free interethnic interaction.

Author Biography

Volodymir Yevtukh, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University Multicultural

His research interests include ethnic and national history of Ukraine, multiculturalism and intercultural relations in different parts of the world, intercultural education and communication, sociology of migration and cultural transformation in the context of human and cultural rights, challenges of contemporary communication space in the time of creation and transformation of cultural identities. He held leadership positions in many leading universities of Ukraine, taught at universities in Germany (Bochum, Munich, Regensburg) USA (Berkeley, Minnesota, San Francisco), Poland (Warsaw). In 1995–1997 he headed the Ministry for Nationalities and Migration of Ukraine, and later held the position of the country’s ambassador to Italy, Malta and San Marino. Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, representative and animator of many foundations and international organizations, (MacArthur Foundation in the USA, Council of Europe) author of many textbooks, review publications and more than 400 scientific papers in prestigious national and international publications.

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