Abstract: Multicultural education reveals the cognitive awareness of cultural diversity and multiple choices, which enable people to re-examine the motives and ultimate destination of the main stream culture education, and consequently can face up to the limitations of education.Through referring to some foreign writings, multicultural and multiculturalism’s concepts are defined. By combined with the description of multicultural education’s concept, emphatically elaborated its basic ideas. Then, according to the real of Canada and its historical process, this paper analyses the reasons for Canada's multicultural learning and summarize Canada's multicultural policy. Finally, the analysis the same point between the Canadian multicultural education and Chinese national cultural education, from the perspectives on confirming multicultural education philosophy, fostering students the cross-cultural skills and structuring cultural connotations with national cultural history, some inspirations can be explored that brings from the Canadian multicultural education to Chinese national education. Key words: Canada; multi-culture; multicultural education; inspirationsIV. 中文摘要: 多元文化教育揭示了人们对文化多样性与文化多元选择的认知，使人们重新审视主流文化教育的动机与归宿，从而正视教育的局限性。本文引用多本国外著作对多元文化、多元文化主义的概念进行了界定，并对多元文化教育概念的进展进行了描述，对其概念进行了界定。着重阐述了多元文化教育的基本理念，其中双语教育是前提，课程设置是关键，教育方法是根本。结合加拿大的现实进展与历史进程，分析了加拿大多元文化学习的原因，并描述了学校及家庭里的多元文化学习、总结了加拿大多元文化的政策和教育。最后，分析了拿大多元文化教育与我国民族文化教育的相同点，并从确定多元文化教育理念、培育学生的跨文化交往能力、根据本民族的文化历史构造民族教育的文化内涵等角度探讨了加拿大多元文化教育对我国民族教育的启...
