本文对国外一些国家实施多元文化教育的背景、教育目标及教育实践的模式进行了比较 ,阐述了我国民族地区开展多元文化教育 ,提高教育质量 ,推动地方经济发展的重要性 ,分析了民族地区实施多元文化教育可采取的模式 ,并提出了多元文化教育开展时应注意的问题 This paper compares the background of implementing multicultural education in some foreign countries, the educational goals and the mode of educational practice. It expounds the importance of carrying out multicultural education in ethnic minority areas in our country to improve the quality of education and promote the development of local economy. Multicultural education can take the model, and put forward the multicultural education to carry out should pay attention to the problem