Informatologia, Vol. 42 No. 1, 2009.
Review article
INTERCULTURAL COUNSELING AS A CURRENT ISSUE AND WHAT MAKES A COMPETENT INTERCULTURAL COUNSELOR
Marija Krečić Javornik
; Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Abstract
In the first part of the paper, the author finds that in the present the question of collaboration between members of the majority and the members of cultural, religious, social and other minorities is one of the most essential civilisational questions. Consequently, intercultural pedagogy and intercultural education play an important role here. Due to such multicultural conditions, school counseling, too, has developed some special features. Furtheron in the paper, the author defines and presents the characteristic features of intercultural counseling set up for pupils who are members of cultural minorities and immigrants, as well as for people who live and work with them. The final part of the paper defines the intercultural competence of a school counselor. The latter should be able to detect cultural aspects relating to the counselee, to recognise their role in the causing of the problem of the person seeking counsel and its solution. He/she should be able to incorporate them in the counseling situation and process.
Keywords
education; intercultural communication; counseling; counselor
Hrčak ID:
34432
URI
Publication date:
30.3.2009.
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