Nørgaards Højskole. Duńska szkoła wielokulturowości
Nørgaards Højskole. Danish school of multiculturalism

Summary/Abstract: The article based on the author’s experience shows the main assumptions of the specific education system of youth and adults in Denmark. Nørgaards Højskole is a school of acting with an offer of enriching the knowledge and skills of young people ending a stage of education compared with the Polish secondary school. Before the young man will choose his career and life he/she has a chance at a course lasting one or two semesters, to recognize their strengths, look at the interpersonal contacts with others, participate in joint projects. You can choose from the following course offers: classical music, popular, choir, science, drama, sport or art. The article includes a brief historical sketch of Danish universities, the creation based on folk pedagogy N. Grundtvig assemblies. The Danish „Folkehøjskole” This school system does not have its counterpart in the Polish educational system. At the end of the article the author presents the reasons for which this system is particularly interesting and worthy of attention for the Polish specialists in the area of culture or teachers. Education in Poland as a key task should equip students with a set of specific life skills as a guarantor of individual self-realization and adaptation to changing operating conditions as far as the unpredictable future is concerned. The practice of Danish schools shows that by opening the contacts with other EU countries, members of other cultures and nations, these goals can be achieved through intercultural cooperation, the atmosphere of cooperation and partnership and creative exploration.

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