Keyword: «humanization of society»

The article argues the need for the development of multicultural education in Russia, as one of the directions of the humanization of society. The authors name the components and reveal the essence of the proposed reform of education in the direction of its multiculturalism, namely, they insist on improving educational programs, textbooks, teaching methods, as well as creating an appropriate system of educational institutions. The goal of multicultural education is named – the formation of planetary thinking through awareness of oneself as part of an ethnic group, state, humanity. However, the values of national education remain traditional – family, school, teacher.