Multicultural Education as a Dimension of Interethnic Dialogue

Abstract

The urgency of sociological analysis of multiculturalism in Russian society is caused by strengthening of the role of intercultural interactions in the processes of global integration. In the context of intensive transnational movings and interethnic contacts, migratory processes, changes of ideological and political vectors of the development intercultural interactions get new specificity.

Today the sphere of culture and education is the most productive field for interethnic interaction, development of dialogue and mutual understanding, acting as a powerful factor of development of national consciousness, self-affirmation of ethnic generality. The role of higher education in the development and strengthening of this system of values is strategic. An interest of foreign students to getting higher education in Russian higher schools is growing, the international cooperation of businessmen, scientists, art workers, public organizations is extending.