文化多樣性是指各群體和社會借以表現其文化的多種不同形式。移民群體、土著群體、少數民族群體是構成某一國家內部文化多樣性的重要來源。文化的多樣性創造了一個豐富多彩的世界,它對于個體成長、地區和國家發展、國際和平乃至全人類的可持續發展都具有重要價值。現代學校教育具有促進個體發展、保存傳遞文化以及國家整合的功能,它是保護與促進文化多樣性中非常重要的但非唯一的機構。與西方多元文化主義產生的歷史背景不同,中國文化多樣性的教育具有獨特的發展軌跡與不同的發展問題。在"后多元文化主義"時代,學界和政府應突破方法論的民族主義的限制,從個體、地方、族群、民族國家、全球等多重視角出發,進一步完善文化多樣性的教育體系。

Cultural diversity refers to the manifold ways in which the cultures of groups and societies find expression. Immigrant groups,indigenous groups and ethnic minority groups are important sources of cultural diversity within a country. Cultural diversity creates a rich and varied world,which is indispensable for individual growth,regional and national development,international peace,the sustainable develop-ment of the humankind. Modern school education not only has the functions of promoting individual development,saving and transmitting culture,but also has the function of national integration. It is very important but not the only institutions to protect and promote cultural diversity. Different from the western historical background of multiculturalism,cultural diversity education in China has a unique development path and problems. In the era of "post-multiculturalism",academia and the governments should breakthrough the limitation of methodological nationalism,further improve the education system of cultural diversity from personal,local,ethnic,national,and global perspectives.