Informatologia, Vol. 50 No. 1-2, 2017.
Preliminary communication
INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION IN THE FUNCTION OF THE EUROPEAN VALUES PROMOTION
Vesna Bedeković
; College for Management in Tourism and Informatics in Virovitica, Virovitica, Croatia
Abstract
A multicultural environment and a permanent necessity to adjust the education to the democratic standards of the European, culturally pluralistic society centralizes the issue of implementation of an intercultural education in the context of the European values promotion and support to a European dimension of education as a dominant guideline of the European countries’ educational policies. The paper analyzes the results of an empirical research conducted among the undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate doctoral students of a course of studies in Pedagogy at the universities in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and the Czech Republic. The research results have demonstrated a significant impact of sociocultural factors on the degree of knowledge about an intercultural education objective, fluctuating from the basic principles of an intercultural education, based on an awareness about a possibility to be mutually culturally enriched, an emphasis on tolerance and coexistence of different cultures, an equal acceptance of culturally versatile individuals and groups, a reduction in stereotypes and prejudices, avoidance of ethnocentrism and xenophobia, up to an oppression to discrimination.
Keywords
intercultural education; communication; Europe
Hrčak ID:
183670
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Publication date:
28.6.2017.
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