Phenomenon Of Multiculturalism Research Articles

Learning for children in an educational enrichment: a perspective derived from Taiwan's Early Childhood Education & Care Curriculum Framework

Anchored in the educational philosophy of “benevolence,” the Taiwan's Early Childhood Education & Care Curriculum Framework establishes nine learning goals and emphasizes the cultivation of six core competencies in young children. Recognizing that young children have potential for development, imagination, and creativity, the framework encourages young learners to engage with their surroundings, exhibit curiosity, and explore through play. The curriculum framework highlights the multifaceted roles of teachers, including their roles in shaping class culture and learning environments, partnering in the lives and learning journeys of children, guiding in their educational development, and collaborating with families. This curriculum framework emphasizes a child-centered approach to course development, integrating diverse activities that are reflective of and relevant to children's life experiences. It prioritizes maintaining the physical and mental health and safety of young children and introduces them to the meaning of life and the phenomenon of multiculturalism. The type of this study is a conceptual analysis, and it is a study from a reflective model on the implementation of the curriculum in Taiwan. Through this curriculum framework, children are encouraged to appreciate life's beauty and interact with others effectively and empathetically. Therefore, the curriculum framework emphasizes life education, multicultural education, aesthetic education, and moral education as essential components in the holistic development of young children. The curriculum framework is an educational enrichment for children's learning. This study explores the concept of early childhood learning as conceptualized by Taiwan's Early Childhood Education & Care Curriculum Framework. It is hoped that such an exploration can broaden young children's learning horizons, and enhance the quality of early childhood education.

Examination of primary school teachers’ attitudes and views towards multicultural education

Just like in many countries around the world, there is a multicultural society in Northern Cyprus. As migrations to the island continue to increase, the phenomenon of multiculturalism has begun to be discussed in the education system. This research was conducted with the aim of determining the attitudes and views of primary school teachers in Northern Cyprus towards multicultural education. Mixed methods strategy was used in this research. In the research, the concurrent triangulation strategy from mixed methods strategies was used. Data collection tools the Teacher Multicultural Education Attitude Scale and developed interview form were used. In the quantitative part of the research, the Teacher Multiculturalism Attitude Scale was applied to 111 randomly selected teachers. According to the survey results, no significant difference was detected depending on the variables of gender, nationality, professional seniority, branch, graduation degree and graduated school. However, significant differences were identified in the multiculturalism scores age and based on the region where the teachers were employed. In the qualitative part of the research, interviews were conducted with 12 participant teachers. According to the qualitative findings, teachers perceived multiculturalism as diversity in terms of nationality, ethnic background, language, and religion. Further, teachers indicated that education in Northern Cyprus does not cater to a multicultural structure, leading to various problems experienced by students and parents, primarily related to communication. The teachers attributed this situation to the unpreparedness of the Ministry of Education (MEB) and the reluctance to change education policies due to an exclusive society. Subsequently, teachers expressed that they did not consider themselves competent in multicultural education and expressed a willingness to participate in in-service training programs if provided.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATIONAL IDENTITY AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCES IN ARCHITECTURE AND ART (EXAMPLE OF CHINA, ALGERIA AND LIBYA)

The topic of the research is devoted to the combination of national traditions and external borrowings in the architecture and art of the cultures of North Africa and the Far East. On the example of the historical sites of Shaanxi province and the Dunhuang cave temple complex in China, it is possible to trace how borrowed architectural and artistic traditions were gradually modified in local conditions. On the example of Shaanxi province, it can be noted how the construction of a type of multi-tiered Buddhist pagoda borrowed from India gradually came to naught, instead, in the Late Dynastic periods, the construction of temples of traditional Chinese religions / philosophical teachings – Taoism and Confucianism – was intensified. Examples of ancient mosques in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, whose appearance and decorative decoration are identical to temples of traditional Chinese religions are illustrative. 
 A study of the architecture of Northeast Africa (the so-called Maghreb region) showed that the Maghreb tower-type minaret was the most resistant to changes and external borrowings: it is even found in mosques of the Ottoman period. The multiculturalism of Libya has led to the fact that mosques of fundamentally different types are simultaneously present within the country, each of which embodies the architectural preferences of a certain ethnic group of the population and is adapted to the natural and climatic conditions of a particular region. The same situation is observed in the case of mosques in Algeria.
 The greatest impact of local traditions on the transformation of external borrowing is observed in China. In Algeria and Libya, more remote regions were the most protected from external influences, on the other hand, the phenomenon of multiculturalism is observed in the coastal territories.

Muzyka kak instrument razvitiya mezhkul'turnoj kompetencii u studentov novogo pokoleniya: istoriya, tekushchee sostoyanie i perspektivy

The process of globalization, which has been rapidly, unfolding since the end of the 20th century, has brought together the development of science and technology, national cultures, turning the world into a real “global village”. The increase in the frequency of cultural exchanges has highlighted the need to understand the phenomenon of multiculturalism and the urgency of improving intercultural communication skills. Today's global music industry needs international talent with intercultural qualities.

Verification of nationality and rehabilitation in Upper Silesia as a point of reference for Donbas

In Poland, the region where the phenomenon of multiculturalism is most strongly represented is Upper Silesia. Upper Silesia, its historical hosts, have been confronted with German, Polish and Czech nationalism since the mid-21st century. Initially, they were forced to determine their ethnic affiliation, then, due to the change of borders, they were forced to move to one or the other side of the newly established Polish-German border in 1922. After 1945, they were subjected to strong repression, deportation to forced labor camps, forced displacement, degrading verification of nationality, and then they were confronted with the Polish population who came to Upper Silesia. Most often, the Poles who arrived were hostile to the Upper Silesians. The aim of this article is to answer the question whether the experiences of integration of the indigenous population of Upper Silesia into the social, cultural, economic and political structures of the Polish state after World War II can be related to a similar process that will take place after the end of hostilities in the eastern regions of the Ukrainian state. . The starting point is the thesis that the Upper Silesian experience of the rehabilitation and citizenship verification procedures should serve as a warning against the mistakes made in Upper Silesia rather than as a useful reference point.

Multiculturalism as a cultural, social and political phenomenon

Modern humans live in a highly culturally, socially and religiously diverse world. The popularity of the phenomenon of multiculturalism is the result of rapidly progressing globalisation, migration, opening borders or the result of wars. On the one hand, such multiculturalism enriches societies, on the other hand, due to this diversity, it can lead to the emergence of new conflicts. This is due to the different value systems of people living next to each other. The article is an overview and refers to the analysis of three selected approaches to multiculturalism: cultural, social and political. The aim of the article is to draw the reader's attention to the broad context of the analysed phenomenon, its diversity, multicolour and educational challenges faced by educators as a result of this phenomenon.

Pendidikan Multikultural dalam Bingkai Pemikiran Nasionalis Religius; Komparasi Konsep Abdurrahman Wahid dan Nurcholish Madjid

This study aims to analyze the concept and comparison of the thoughts of Abdurrahman Wahid and Nurcholish Madjid regarding the concept of multicultural education from the perspective of religious nationalist thought. These two figures were chosen because of their popularity and their works as nationalist and religious figures in Indonesia. This research uses qualitative research methods, based on literature study. The data sources consist of two, namely primary which comes from the works of the two figures in terms of its relation to multiculturalism, and secondary which comes from journals or research findings. Abdurrahman Wahid is of the view that in a multicultural context, Islamic education must vary according to each culture. Diverse education does not deviate from the goal, but an effort to achieve educational goals through various ways. Nurholis Madjid is of the view that multiculturalism is not only co-existence but goes further than that, namely pro-existence. The phenomenon of multiculturalism in Islamic education is not only seen as a reality that is only allowed to exist, but is something that must be developed for the good of life.

Leisure as a transition to multiculturalism

The article discusses examples of the mutual influence of post-national multiculturalism on the art of leisure and the art of leisure on the emerging new community, its thinking. Multiculturalism for society acts as a kind of new folklore (or post-folklore), designed only to identify a problem that will undoubtedly require further serious scientific study using the methods of various sciences. Today we are just getting ready to meet the phenomenon of multiculturalism.

MULTI CULTURE AND LANGUAGE RELATIONS IN THE PROCESS OF GLOBALIZATION

The article discusses different approaches to the phenomenon of multiculturalism, as well as the scope of its interaction in linguistic processes. Literary translation analyzes the relationship between language, culture and imagination.

European multiculturalism and the specifics of modern interethnic communications (on the example of essays by Karl-Marcus Gauss «The European Alphabet»)

The study of the phenomena of multiculturalism and intercultural communication began in the middle of the twentieth century and continues to this day. The impetus for the emergence of a new scientific discipline was the development of humanism after World War II. European and American scholars have begun to study the phenomenon of multiculturalism and the need for intercultural communication, trying to find features of communication between nations, to reach an understanding between them, to find scenarios for resolving conflicts and more. Our article complements the study of the multicultural nature of the European continent, the achievement of understanding between different nationalities, the importance of intercultural communication as a science and age-old intercultural conflicts on the example of essays by Karl Marcus- Gauss «European Alphabet». Modern essay writing is designed to change the world, inspire new actions and rethink behavior. Themes of multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and equality have become more and more common among contemporary European and Ukrainian essayists. A striking example of such works is the collection of Karl-Marcus Gauss «European Alphabet» (1997). This is the «adult alphabet» of national inequality, economic racism, migration, multiculturalism. In conclusion, we can say that the study and further development of intercultural communication should contribute to improving the policy of multiculturalism, which is implemented by countries in Europe and the Americas. Changes in the policy of multiculturalism are not only recommended, but also mandatory, because the situation now does not create fair comfortable conditions for life and development of migrants in Europe and America.

Multiculturalism: its problems and teaching

Modern sociocultural, political, and economic processes are predominantly shaped by globalization. Globalization has created large-scale emigration flows around the world, processes of integration and assimilation of various groups and ethnicities, actualizing the phenomenon of multiculturalism. Modern multiculturalism has its positive and negative consequences. Western multiculturalism is based on the principles of radical liberalism, which favors individual rights over collective rights. Meanwhile, it is obvious that today we should talk about universal rights, inherent to both individuals and groups and collectives of individuals, nations, peoples. A selective approach to relations of inequality between different groups in society is necessary, since some of them are insurmountable and hardly require a change in such a situation. Multiculturalism is just entering its maturity, and much remains to be done for this policy to succeed.
 The state, which pursues a policy of multiculturalism, must propagate the ideas of tolerance in society and enshrine them in law. Effective multiculturalism presupposes unity and coherence of state policy, practice and ideology. It is necessary to recognize the necessity of forming conditions conducive to the development of positive forms of multiculturalism. Among them we would like to mention a well-considered policy of the state, which defines the norms of multiculturalism. These norms must find their place in the process of learning and teaching at different levels.
 In some post-Soviet countries (e.g. Azerbaijan) multiculturalism must spread among the various ethical groups, the peoples traditionally living in the country. With this approach, multiculturalism policy should aim to consolidate all ethnic groups into a single society with shared values and ideals, and recognize the rights of these groups to cultural and ethno-confessional autonomy.
 There is a need to include multiculturalism as a separate and mandatory subject in higher education courses.
 Multiperspectivity should be directly related to multiculturalism due to the commonality of the methodological and philosophical platform, many concepts and definitions. Multiculturalism and the multiperspectivity method should be used not only in teaching humanities disciplines, but also introduced in the methodological analysis of scientific research.

Training Bachelor of Tourism to the Profession in Terms of Multicultural Educational Space

The needs of the tourist domestic market and the integration of education into the international educational space require understanding of the phenomenon of multiculturalism and finding new ways of its realization in the process of professional training of bachelors in tourism. Creating a multicultural educational space requires the introduction of an innovative field of cultural interaction through the introduction of innovative technologies based on the dialogue of cultures, which will be aimed at activating the emotional, intellectual and creative sphere of personality development. Such technologies can be considered as a reserve of qualitative training bachelors in tourism to the professional activity in terms of multicultural education space. The main purpose of the article is to analyze the state of tourism potential of Ukraine and the conformity of the system of professional training of specialists in this field; to determine the possibilities of creation and realization of multicultural educational space through modeling of cultural interaction and to determine the ways of its implementation in higher education institutions. To achieve it, a set of theoretical and empirical methods was used to identify a number of problems that slow down the process of training bachelors in tourism to meet the challenges of the modern tourist services market. To eliminate them, a structural and functional model of forming a multicultural educational space in the process of professional training of bachelors in tourism has been developed, and mechanisms of its realization through technologies of cultural interaction are characterized.

ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ПРАКТИЧЕСКИХ И ТЕОРЕТИЧЕСКИХ РЕШЕНИЙ ПО ПРОБЛЕМАМ МУЛЬТИКУЛЬТУРАЛИЗМА В КАЗАХСТАНЕ

The national development of any multicultural society is associated with a number of problems and challenges, because such a society is a set of different cultures that exist in one space and means the ability of people of different national, religious and cultural backgrounds to live in a single territory. In this regard, the problem of interaction of cultures is relevant, as well as questions about the role and place of individual cultures in a multicultural society, the degree and mechanism of their interaction. The issue of multicultural interaction is an important aspect of domestic research. Kazakhstan requires a reflexive understanding of not only the traditions of Kazakh culture, but also the phenomenon of multiculturalism in Kazakhstani society. In the post-Soviet period, our country has experienced severe emotional and psychological stress that has affected all aspects of society. These changes have led to a change in the attitude of the Kazakh people to other nationalities. The issues of tolerance and multiculturalism are especially relevant in the context of growing interethnic tension, ethnophobia and intolerance in the socio-economic and spiritual life of modern Kazakhstan. Thus, the problem of multiculturalism is associated with the search for practical and theoretical solutions to the problems facing the world community today. The active process of globalization raises the issue of conformity. The policy of identity is a response to the special effects of globalization: conflicts can arise between people who claim to live in a global world and those who live in a local culture. The relationship between global and local initiatives cannot be characterized by mergers or prohibitions. However, the diversity of society and culture will not disappear with globalization. Accordingly, the conflict between people who think in the global world and those who identify themselves with the local subculture is a conflict of multiculturalism and identity. As we all know, the core of identity is traditional and national culture, which is the most difficult test of globalization. Dialogue and cultural continuity are the main means of preserving identity. Elements of multiculturalism can be noted in Kazakhstan today. It can be attributed, first of all, to a multina-tional community, in which some subjects are divided according to the strength of their national traditions, cultural identity.

Ethno-consolidating role of art in sustainable development of cross-border regions

This article explores the capacity of art in consolidation of the society on ethnic grounds. This affects the sustainability of regional development, results of the exchange of sociocultural experience between the generations of culture bearers and, and overcoming severe socioeconomic and sociopolitical problems in general. The subject of this research is the ethno-consolidating role of art. The theoretical-methodological framework of leans on the trend of ethnic art studies. The article is based not only on the theoretical consideration of the indicated vector, but also on the results of empirical research, such as expert survey of administrative employees of the cultural, art and educational institutions (cross-border regions of Russia: Altai Krai, Altai Republic, Kemerovo Region, Kazakhstan: Pavlodar and East Kazakhstan Regions, n=120); expert survey of the government officials and local self-governance that are responsible for implementation of regional and municipal programs aimed at preservation and development of ethno-national cultural assets in cross-border regions of the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan (n=65). The following conclusions were formulated: 1) ethnic consolidation of culture bearers in cross-border regions can be effectively realized through the phenomena of traditional and indigenous art; 2) the current processes of assimilation of cultural values and norms, ethnic tension, intercultural dialogue, and the phenomenon of multiculturalism as a whole can blunt the effect of art upon ethnic consolidation of the society, although not affecting the pace of intergenerational interaction, in which the important role is allocated to art; 3) art carries out a consolidating role in the society based on continuity of values and norms.

The Pakistani community in Spain: social and cultural challenges

This article uses the example of the Pakistani community to explore the phenomenon of multiculturalism in Spain. Although Muslims of Maghrebi origin constitute the most numerous immigrant group on the Iberian Peninsula, the Pakistanis are special in that they represent an exceptionally distinctive and hermetic community. The article analyses social, economic and cultural determinants of this community’s situation in Spain. The Raval immigrant neighbourhood in Barcelona exemplifies the mechanisms under study. The article focuses on determinants of Pakistani immigrants’ situation as well as the challenges that arise against the backdrop of interaction between this community and the host society. The author also reflects on the issue of the ethnocultural distinctiveness of this group in normative and institutional terms, and analyses the consequences of this distinctiveness.

Analysis of migration processes in the EU and the theory of multiculturalism: current state and prospects

The article deals with the problem of the migration crisis that has hit the EU. Since 2015, there has been a sharp increase in the number of refugees from the region, to which European countries were not ready. By the end of 2019, Europe has already exhausted its economic capacity to receive and accommodate refugees, but their flow is continuing. Over the last 5 years, more than 4 million refugees from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia have come to Europe. In 2015, the flow of migrants was over 1.5 million people, in 2016 - 900 000, in 2017 - 650 000, in 2018 - 600 000, in 2019 - almost 550 000.The main causes of large-scale movement of migrants to Europe have been identified. Among them are wars and conflicts that destabilize the situation in their native countries; demographic outbreak in Africa and the Middle East, deteriorating funding for refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, exacerbation of the 2018-2019 Syrian crisis; the availability of high social guarantees and diaspora relatives in many EU countries.The political, social, cultural consequences of the migration crisis for individual countries and the EU are analyzed. The increasing flow of refugees has exacerbated in European societies the problems of terrorism, the increase in crime rates, the poor cultural compatibility of the local population with refugees, the increased right-wing sentiment and the high social costs of migrant adaptation.The importance of the ideology of multiculturalism for the current migration crisis in the EU is substantiated. The phenomenon of multiculturalism is compared with the phenomena of globalization and shows the impact on the situation in society, which lead to conflict. Multiculturalism has recently been perceived as a means that can mitigate the negative (primarily for traditional cultures, ethnic and religious groups) consequences of globalization, but narrowing the philosophical view of the phenomenon of multiculturalism to the institutional level, modern representatives of the humanities and practices in Europe (political scientists, sociologists, politicians) faced with the fact that the interaction of cultures has not been adequately reflected in theory and held in practice.

Сучасна література як художня репрезентація феномену „гібридної ідентичності”

The article considers the features of modern Western literature in postcolonial discourse. Emphasis is placed on researches that have formed the basis for understanding the phenomenon of multiculturalism in modern humanities. In this context, the concept of transculturation as a new worldview and a way of polemics with multiculturalism has been analyzed and the leading ideas have been singled out: „borderline identity”, hybridity, ambivalence, etc. The modern European literature is characterized as an artistic representation of the mentioned concepts, the so-called „borderline consciousness”, which underlies the hybrid worldview. The authors consider the phenomenon of cross-cultural (multicultural, transcultural) or postcolonial novel as one of the brightest phenomena of modern literary discourse. The dominant of creative work of cross-cultural authors is the identity crisis inherent in both the author and his or her character. In the proposed dimension, the work of immigrant authors in general and S. Rushdie’s novels in particular are considered as an artistic actualization of the theory of cultural hybridity, and the narrative of life „on the border” is defined as the most notable artistic strategy of modern literature.

Neoliberal multiculturalism and productive inclusion: beyond the politics of fulfillment in education

ABSTRACT While political theorists have elaborated on the phenomenon of neoliberal multiculturalism, many progressive educational scholars have yet to adequately theorize this nexus. Neoliberalism either remains unproblematized or, in some instances, it is imagined as a tendency that is antithetical to and incompatible with multiculturalism. This essay contributes to a critical inclusion studies of education and calls attention to the ways in which mobilizations of neoliberalism have appropriated, accommodated, and put to use the discourses of multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion. By charting the parameters of neoliberal multiculturalism, the author demonstrates how a logic of extractive schooling operates through inclusion discourses, and particularly a technology of productive inclusion that governs and manages permissible forms of subjectivity, knowledge, affect, and action. Arguing that strategies of inclusion are unable to subvert capitalism, settler colonialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, or ableism, the author concludes with a call for the revitalization of an antagonistic politics and education of transfiguration in order to challenge the dominant reign of a politics of fulfillment in education policy, theory, and practice.

THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON CULTURE AND EDUCATION

Abstract. The article analyіes various and contradictory approaches to understanding the essence of socio-political, economic and cultural phenomenon of globalization. The purpose of the article is to study the impact of globalization on culture and education. Methods of research: theoretical (analysis of Polish and Ukrainian scientific literature on the problem under investigation); empirical (comparative analysis, generalization). The term «glocalization» is analyzed, from which the approaches to understanding of globalization in the aspect of its influence on culture are structured. The consequences of direct and indirect influence of globalization on culture and education, which lead to changes in their role and tasks in the modern world, are found out. The process of gradual emergence in the conditions of globalization of a new educational reality − «education without borders», in other words, the world educational space is investigated. It is noted that the processes of globalization require the educators to solve the problem of theoretical understanding of the cultural diversity of the world, against which the phenomenon of multiculturalism arises. The concept of multiculturalism is gaining in popularity in Poland and Ukraine as a problem of coexistence of the old cultural minorities and those that are just forming, connected not only with people’s and ethnic belongings, but also with religion, region, attitude towards history, the status of a person with disabilities, sexual orientation, etc. It is also noted that there are two trends in the field of educational reforms: one focuses on the centralization of the education system and the adoption of effective educational decisions at the macroeconomic level and the second on the decentralization of the education system. The article outlines the goal of modern culture and education, namely the preparation of society for the new challenges of globalization, which consists not only in building a global culture, but also in deepening the identity of individuals, groups and communities by promoting the provisions of mutual dialogue, mutual understanding and cooperation.

Лингвоимагологический подход к мультикультурной литературе (на примере романов “Habibi” Наоми Шихаб Най, “Where the Streets Had a Name” Ранды Абдель-Фаттах и “Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood” Ибтисам Баракат)

The article considers the phenomenon of multiculturalism in its connection with linguistic imagology. The author describes the differences between the liberal model of multiculturalism, recognized as utopian, and the polycentric model, rooted in postcolonial theory. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the ideas of multiculturalism are considered in comparison with the ideas of imagology, which also focuses on the issues of identity and otherness. Points of contact of two scientific directions are designated. The author shows that the phenomenon of multiculturalism is reflected in multicultural literature, the study of which has become particularly relevant with the acceleration of globalization. The article provides the views of both Russian and foreign scientists on the concept of multicultural literature, for the study of which a linguoimagological approach is proposed, implying linguo-stylistic analysis with an emphasis on the representation of the image of “others,” “strangers” in comparison with the image of “self”. Based on the material of English-language works devoted to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the author analyzes the methods of presenting the tragic events of confrontation through the eyes of the authors- bearers of Palestinian culture: the inclusion of deictic means, symbolic images, militaristic vocabulary, means of imitating broken English speech, etc. in the narration. The author concludes that the studied works provide an opportunity to look at one of the longest conflicts in modern history through the eyes of people constantly living in the conditions of a real military-political confrontation.