THE METHODS OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY IN RESEARCH OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

Abstract

The intercultural education is comprehended as
a dialogue which is focused on agreement. Its effect
is mutual enriching the neighbouring cultures. The
model of such a dialogue can be analysed by the
using the methods of philosophy. Hermeneutics
allows to establish the historic situation of the
dialogue; analytic philosophy provides ways of
speech acts analysis; phenomenology shows the
principles of research of axiological aspect of
communication. The philosophical ways of
examining the dialogue could be thus helpful in
pedagogical research and in educational practice.
Philosophical research methods have two
aspects: cognitive and practical, which can be
useful in the diagnostics of the educational
situation and understanding how to create the
conditions that are necessary for the
implementation of the multicultural education.
Examining multicultural education as a
dialogue that aimed at the understanding of the
truth, it is determined the need to undertake a
study in various areas of the philosophy. The
researches may be conducted at the different levels
and based on the methods of language analysis,
phenomenological methods, axiological aspects,
hermeneutic understanding and normative
concept of speech.