The object of the research - theory and practice of the multicultural education in the Ukrainian Danube in 1950-2000 years; the subject of the research - the polyculture education of the teenagers in the general establishments of the region of the second half of the XX th century; the purpose of the research consists in the realization of the complete historical and pedagogical analysis of the multicultural education of the teenagers in schooling institutions of the Ukrainian Danube of the second half of the XX th century for the creative use of the perspective experience in the general establishments; the specificity of the object and limits of the research lead to the application of these whole methods of the research, such as: theoretical - methods of the specific historical analysis of the staging of the deployment of the idea of the multicultural education, model and monographic methods of the scientific knowledge of the pedagogical practice of the multicultural education in the Ukrainian Danube; general and scientific - methods of the analysis, the synthesis, the comparison, the summarizing of the experience of the creative teachers, of the classification of the qualitative characteristics of the system of the multicultural education in the region in the outlined period for the determination of the initial theses, the purpose, the object, subject and the tasks of the research; empirical - questioning, interviews, discussion with the purpose of the discovering of the factors and systemic-structural characteristics of the advanced forms and methods of the multicultural education in the region in the examined period; comparative and analytical - for the determination of the theoretical and methodological foundations of the organization of the education and the historical and geographical situation, the terminology and comparative analysis of the archival sources and scientific-pedagogical literature; structural - for the realization of the retrospective analysis of the normative and legal documents, the statistical statements of the educational institutions of the region in the second half of the XX th century, reports and generalization of the data of the census of the Ukrainian Danube, the subject-based analysis of the educational and methodical materials and the periodical press for the structurization of the examined historical and pedagogical knowledge; chronological - for the ascertainment of the dynamics of the changes in the system of the multicultural education in the Ukrainian Danube of the second half of the XX th century in the time sequence within the various stages of its formation; the scientific novelty of the results of the research is that - for the first time on the base of the culturological, personal and active, competent approach it is comprehensively analyzed the socio-historical, cultural and educational background of the development of the multicultural education in the Ukrainian Danube of the second half of the XX th century, it is scientifically founded the periodization of the development the idea of the multicultural education of the young pupils in the examined period; it is characterized tendencies, which determined the scientific objectivism of the coverage of the multicultural education as the historical and pedagogical phenomenon; it is defined the factors (political-legal, socio-economic, ethno-cultural, demographic, educational-genesis), it is outlined the organizational and pedagogical principles of the multicultural education of the teenagers of the region in the designated period (principles, constructive concepts, technologies and methodology, interactive forms and methods).
