Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im.Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
Abstract
This article presents the problem of politics of difference realized within the
American educational system, with a special emphasis on higher education.
This politics is according to the author based on putting in the center
of all educational actions the idea of diversity, as well in creating academic
institutions. This key idea becomes in the American context a special significance, regarding the fact that the American society is based on ideology
that celebrates multiculturalism and diversity as such. This article presents
also an important for the contemporary situation in the United States problem
of combining cultural and ethnic diversity on the economical category
of difference between various classes. Furthermore, it seems to be more
significant in the light of the economic crisis in recent years that affected
also American education in the same extent