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Państwo i Społeczeństwo / State and Society

Intercultural education in school. Theoretical premises

Krystyna Grzesiak Logo ORCID

Abstract

Polish schools are increasingly accepting foreign students, and teaching for the purpose of cultural diversity is reshaping itself. The aim of the article is to indicate the importance of intercultural education in contemporary schools, with particular emphasis on the intercultural competences of teachers. Intercultural education becomes a helpful tool in creating an individual approach to culturally diverse students and in forming skills such as mutual cultural and religious respect, acceptance or overcoming stereotypes and prejudices. Thanks to intercultural education, there is a change in the ethnocentric attitude of students towards unfamiliar cultures. The essence of well-implemented intercultural education lies in the competence of teachers. Teachers’ intercultural competencies should be formed on the basis of knowledge and skills from various academic disciplines and sub-disciplines. These competencies should be expressed in knowledge of the issues of multiculturalism and interculturalism, as well as in an attitude of openness towards people representing a different nationality, faith and culture.

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Grzesiak, Krystyna. “Intercultural Education in School. Theoretical Premises”. Państwo I Społeczeństwo State and Society, vol. 25, no. Special Issue, Dec. 2025, pp. 25-40, doi:10.48269/2451-0858-pis-2025-sp-001.

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Vol. 25 No. Special Issue (2025)
Published: 2025-12-23


eISSN: 2451-0858
Ikona DOI 10.31749/2451-0858-SaS

Publisher
AFM Publishing House of the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow University

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