Školski sustav i (multikulturalni) identitet – primjer Belgije
School System and (Multicultural) Identity – Belgian Example

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses educational systems and multicultural and multiethnic identities, with a special reference to the educational system of Belgium. (Multicultural) identities and the interests of the society are formed through the mutual relations in a certain (historical) context. This relation is clearly reflected in the educational system that with its organisational and content-related dimension strives to maintain the cultural identity of a certain country. The realisation of this important task is relatively simpler in the countries that, tentatively, are ethnically monocultural while the problem is more complex in the countries that are ethnically multicultural, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina. The European education and educational systems, such as that of Belgium, offer good conceptual and content-related frameworks that can serve to those countries that have multiethnical population, that is multiethnical and multicultural identities. School helps the students to identify and to implement in the everyday life the values of Belgium, the special value being that people are born free and equal in their rights and duties regardless of their social and geographic origin, sex or religion.

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