Review article
Interculturalism in upbringing and education: The other as a starting point
Marino Ninčević
Abstract
The author discusses today’s common determinants in science about upbringing which arises from a new pedagogical paradigm: other people as a starting point and the most significant such determinants in science are: a new philosophy of education and intercultural upbringing and education in a multicultural and plural society within a new European context. Only a person with his own built attitude and identity can understand others and those who are different and can therefore pave the path for true tolerance and coexistence. A school is asked to provide an upbringing which helps one to grow and live in diversity which if they are rightly understood, will not divide but enrich and connect people. A school cannot deny the Christian roots of European cultural heritage which continues to bear its fruit in ethical, cultural, artistic, philosophical, scientific, lawful and political areas. Interculturality is a process, an action which is realized in permanent dialectics between unity and difference, institution and intuition, generality and specificity, memories and future, believing and testifying, a response of sense and every day demands, opening and closing. Only a serious process of interculturalism which considers all components of the path one should cross, overcomes closings and opens the search for the unity which does not paralyse diversity. A superficial approach to interculturalism is in danger of promoting the loss of identity or the absolutization of the particular.
Keywords
interculturalism; upbringing; education; culture; Europe; identity
Hrčak ID:
38800
URI
Publication date:
30.4.2009.
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