Establishing a multi-cultural society requires effective communication among its members from diverse cultures. Effective multi-cultural communication can be achieved through media education for multi-cultural families. Thus, forming the philosophical premises for the multi-cultural education is a significant academic endeavor. The authors explored the possible adoption of Harbermas's critical approach and his theory of communicative action as a philosophical premise of multi-cultural media education. Also, the authors scrutinized transnational rationality as the core aspect of multi-cultural media education theory. Harbermas proposed two conditions for communicative action: cognitive interests and volitional interests. Volitional interests are the basis of transnational rationality. They embrace the "Principle of the Participation of All Actors" proposed by Frazer. The philosophical premises adopted from the critical approach to communicative action provide a direction for multi-cultural media education in which members of society learn to communicate based on rationality and allowing the opinions of minority presented in the public sphere.