@ARTICLE{26543118_26557593_2005, author = {Stepan Shevyrev}, keywords = {, multicultural society, immigrants, social tension, schoolsteaching history}, title = {Teaching History in a Multicultural Society}, journal = {Educational Studies Moscow}, year = {2005}, month = {1}, number = {2}, pages = {164-172}, url = {https://archive_vo.hse.ru/en/2005--2/26557593.html}, publisher = {}, abstract = {The article presents the problem of an urgent re-orientation in the school course in History. Its necessity is caused by four principal reasons: the necessity to preserve the integrity and unity of the country, the new multi-confessional structure of modern society, permanent mass migrations, and the increase in social tension and in inter-ethnic hostility. The skills to be acquired in the History class are adaptation to cultural diversity, acceptance of such diversity as of a norm, and not as something unusual, constructive dialogue with those who think differently, and development of tolerance.}, annote = {The article presents the problem of an urgent re-orientation in the school course in History. Its necessity is caused by four principal reasons: the necessity to preserve the integrity and unity of the country, the new multi-confessional structure of modern society, permanent mass migrations, and the increase in social tension and in inter-ethnic hostility. The skills to be acquired in the History class are adaptation to cultural diversity, acceptance of such diversity as of a norm, and not as something unusual, constructive dialogue with those who think differently, and development of tolerance.} }