Management of school – teaching the tolerance and cultural openness

Abstract

As we know, one of the most important goals of modern educational programme, is preparing young people to a creative life in XXI century. It is obvious that it will be time of a great co-operation of nations, of an enormous exchange of people, goods and ideas. The basic condition to effective, creative and secure life in such a society is high level of tolerance and cultural openness. Tolerance is a disposition to be indulgent towards those who opinion and costumes are different, cultural openness is a disposition to be not only tolerant, but also actively a lively interested in other cultures. However, many local European societies have many troubles in this area. Nationalism is still strong in Europe, still provokes conflicts. In the results of our research we can see, that In Poland today programme of teaching is much more open to other nations and culture than used to be in the past (before the war and in the period of communism). The global results of almost every person tested are encouraging – they are positive which shows that generally both teachers and pupils are tolerant and open to other cultures. But some aspects are less optimistic. First of all, the investigation shows, that results of pupils are higher that results of teachers. It means, that Polish school could be obstacle rather than stimulation in the process of opening to other cultures. Secondly, correctional analysis shows that in the population of pupils there is negative correlation of idealism with cultural openness, what indicate that idealistic concepts of young people are not built around ideas of international and multicultural community, but probably around the more traditional ideas.