Peculiarities of Multicultural Education Development in North America, Western Europe and Ukraine

Abstract

The purpose of the article was to analyze the process of the multicultural education development in countries that have experience in the successful implementation of its ideas and to identify relevant for Ukraine ideas of multicultural education, as in Ukraine the number of foreign students in universities, academies and institutes is constantly growing.
 In order to solve the tasks we used general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison, systematization and generalization for studying the works of foreign and domestic scientists and the legislative support) as well as special scientific (prognostic analysis for determination of the multicultural education prospects in Ukraine) research methods.
 Underway the study, the fact of the need for the multicultural education and its links with the social, economic and political factors in the global labor market, as well as with the migratory flow that requires the integration of immigrants into society, was found out. However, each country’s multicultural education has its own peculiarities in relation to the legislative environment and the implementation of an inclusive education perspective at the different educational levels.