Intercultural education - a way to develop the "I" identity in the differentiated social world

Abstract

"In expert literature the term education is enormously capacious and in its broad sense it can mean “all diff erent infl uences and methodical cultural forming of people”2 or awakening, in the individual, the need of learning and feeling the world and its values3. Th us, the deep sense of contemporary education is expressed in the approved world of values of the individual who uses dialogue in social rela-tions, the individual with intercultural views4. Th is orientation, understood as the care for commonwealth development of societies, in this context, acquires special features of intercultural education (frequently emphasized and described by numerous scientifi c environments5), which both in the past and currently has involved many contrasting meanings. Such education is perceived as “the peda-gogy of contact or confl ict of cultures”6. In both cases undeniable chances appear for noticing, getting acquainted with and wishing to understand Others, which altogether enables starting the process of mutual learning and reifi cation of the surrounding social world." (fragm.)