On June 11-12, 2025, an international seminar “Citizenship Education and the Future of Multicultural Democracies” was held, organized by the School Pedagogy Workshop, the Department of Sociology of Education and the Education Policy and Civic Education Laboratory of the Faculty of Social Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University, in which prof. dr hab. Helena Ostrowicka and dr Celina Czech-Włodarczyk took part, presenting a fragment of the research results from the “Heterotopies of Citizenship” project. In their speech entitled: “Youth organizations as spaces of civic education. The question about the future of a multicultural society in a situation of threat”, the researchers presented the types of pedagogy described by Z. Kwieciński about selected youth organizations operating in Poland. The researchers emphasized that civic education is one form of pedagogy, i.e., an educational practice, and youth organizations are a space in which these practices can be implemented. The researchers presented youth organizations as places where young people express their attitudes to what is important to them, so they are places where we can recognize contemporary democratic values practiced by young people in the public space. By examining the threads of multiculturalism within the analyzed organizations, the researchers demonstrated how organizations draw on other cultures in the processes of formulating problems and implementing their solutions. At the same time, they assumed that we can talk about cultural distinctiveness when it is noticed by the interested parties themselves, i.e., the organizations studied. The speech was one of many inspiring speeches and important conversations about the challenges facing civic education in an era of increasing socio-cultural diversity.

