
INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY - critical factor of the process to adapt to the global knowledge society
INTERCULTURAL SENSITIVITY - critical factor of the process to adapt to the global knowledge society
Keywords: multicultural environment; intercultural dialogue; quality research
The scientific paper has as main goal the presentation of the achievements of a pilot research aiming at revealing the importance of the cultural sensitivity for a better social inclusion in a multicultural environment created by the global knowledge economy. The investigation was conducted within a research project: e-Multicult (“Educational portal for the interactive learning of foreign languages in the perspective of the insertion in a multicultural environment”), financed under the national budget for research and innovation, which aims at creating an educational portal for foreign languages learning and the development of communication abilities in a multicultural context. Consequently, the pilot research had as target the persons’ perception on intercultural sensitivity and on the communication ways in a multicultural environment, articulating the direct involved people’s perception with the perception of the people who expect to work/live in a multicultural environment. The results of the pilot research contributed to the refinement of the educational model in order to implement it in the web portal.
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