TO THE ISSUE OF MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION IN KAZAKHSTAN

The global processes taking place in the modern world, the radical changes in the system of socioeco- nomic relations taking place in Kazakhstan, the democratization of the society and its public institutions, includ- ing the school, have revealed many problems that have been hidden before. One of such problems is the for- mation of multiculturalism among Kazakhstan people. In the process of globalization, intensification of intercultural contacts with different countries, new trends in the development of the world community have emerged in the framework of multiculturalism, tolerant attitudes to- wards cultural diversity and cultural characteristics of other peoples. Without the solution of the multicultural education and upbringing problem, it is impossible to set and solve the tasks of modernizing education, spiritual and moral development and upbringing of the Kazakhstan citizen per- sonality, preparing the younger generation for intercultural interaction in the context of complex social and eco- nomic relations of the modern world. In this regard, one of the important tasks of higher education institutions is the expansion of the multicultural components of the higher education content, increasing the requirements for mastering the world's cultural herit- age and foreign languages by future specialists