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The purpose of the article is the analysis of multiculturalism as a current trend in education during the globalization era. In the article a culturological approach to education is revealed, it is noted that from the beginnings of the XX century the educational centers has been, at the same time, the centers of culture, the subjects of its creation and consumption by the individual. In the modern global world these two processes have become complicated and differentiated, there has occurred division of the uniform cultural-educational space, which has led to their weak interaction in the conditions of weak integration processes. First of all, the cultural context of education is connected with assimilation of cultural universals, the system of languages of culture, identification of those dominating ideas and values that are incentives for the development of cognition in a certain direction. It is connected with a certain type of civilization. In the XXI century a new multicultural space of education has been formed. It is a dynamic system of various cultural fields which were created as a result of interaction of the subjects of education which are carriers of various cultural experiences. There are revealed in the article some approaches to the post-modern condition of society which describes new tendencies in culture, to the phenomenon of poly-culturalism in the modern world and to a new type of education which is being formed.