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The pedagogy of socio-cultural diversity
The pedagogy of socio-cultural diversity

Author(s): Alexandru Florentina
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Editura Pro Universitaria
Keywords: cultural diversity; education; pedagogy; intercultural communication.

Summary/Abstract: The intercultural education places in the foreground the subjective and relational dimensions, the joint action and the dialogue, focusing on the individual experience and individual personality as a whole. One of the main objectives of the intercultural education is the formation of a person who can manifest both the desire for self-knowledge and that of knowing the other, even though the external image of the other is different. Starting from a “model of the difference” the individual can learn that otherness is not a deficiency. Everyone has cultural particularities and a different knowledge base. These aspects can be positively used in the intercultural education, based on pedagogy of sociocultural diversity that focusing on learner and its characteristics stimulates dialogue, decentration, plurality and emancipation.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 18-24
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English