- Florya Chronicles of Political Economy
- Vol: 3 Issue: 2
- Intercultural education - Analysis and Perspectives
Intercultural education - Analysis and Perspectives
Authors : Carmen Marina Gheorghiu
Pages : 71-104
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Publication Date : 2017-10-04
Article Type : Other
Abstract :Education prospect of opening multiple values is a step towards fully justified since they are best individual insertion in a polymorphic and dynamic spiritual world. This approach formative meets the aspirations of both the individual by valuing some particular, unique trait that deserves to be recognized or amplified, and the profit of the company, ensuring a degree of coherence, solidarity and functionality. A culture is high not only in itself, through its own (self)contemplative or (self)reproductive mechanisms but also the "metabolism” of growth and its transformation. The main objective of intercultural education consists of preparing people to perceive, accept, respect and experience otherness. The aim is smoothing the land of meeting with the other. Intercultural education aims at developing education for all in the spirit of recognizing the differences that exist within the same society and refers less to achieve education for different cultures, implying staticism and isolation of cultural groups. Intercultural education favors interaction and dialogue, the courage to come out of oneself and the desire in the other’s projection. The main empirical data collection methods that are used in this paper are: observation and social documents analysis. Style research approach uses both qualitative and quantitative perspective. Quantitative research highlights the numerical measurements of specific aspects of the phenomena studied with the aim of testing causal hypotheses whereas qualitative research paradigms are based on a kind of postmodern, post-rationalist or post-positivist views. This paper, presents some of the theoretical considerations on the development of intercultural education in Romania as well as offering a global perspective. Although Romania, as in fact the entire Balkan area, has always been an ethnic and cultural mosaic, the concern for intercultural education is recent, considering politics practiced by the regime, which was one social, ethnic and cultural leveling despite discursive affirmation of equality between Romanian and "nationalities”. Thus, intercultural education history, or at least the commitment to interculturalism. After 1989, Romania’s ethnic minorities have assumed an active role in affirming their cultural identity different from that of the majority. This paper aims to outline a picture of contemporary intercultural education through a general analysis and point some prospects regarding this subject.Keywords : Inter-culturalism, perspective of education, ethnicity, diversity