Original scientific paper
Cognition of Basic Values of Interculturalism in the Context of Implementation of Intercultural Education and Upbringing
Vesna Bedeković
; College of Management in Tourism and IT in Virovitica
Abstract
: Interculturalism, as a contemporary concept open for constant re-examination and adaptation to the changes confronting the present society characterized by migrations at a global level and encounters among members of different cultures, religions, languages and life philosophies, bases its application on the enforcement of intercultural principles and on promotion of intercultural values in different fields of human activity, among which education holds an important position. The results of empirical research performed on 1,320 undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates in pedagogy at universities in Croatia, the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia have indicated a statistically significant connection between the degree of respondents’ knowledge of basic values of interculturalism and the socio-demographic characteristics. Basically, the respondents had a general knowledge of essential characteristics of interculturalism whereas cognition of values promoted by intercultural upbringing and education moves within the framework of basic principles of intercultural upbringing and education based on equal acceptance of culturally different individuals and groups, avoidance of ethnocentrism and resistance to all forms of discrimination, racism and xenophobia, reduction of stereotypes and prejudices, including the development of intercultural upbringing and education as a process of cooperation, creation of joint values and mutual enrichment based on the experience of diversity as an opportunity for studying.
Keywords
diversity; interculturalism; intercultural principles; basic values of interculturalism
Hrčak ID:
86894
URI
Publication date:
10.9.2012.
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