CONSIDERATIONS ON AXIOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN GLOBALIZATION
CONSIDERATIONS ON AXIOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN GLOBALIZATION

Summary/Abstract: The crisis of values in today’s omni-mercantilized world could be solved by changing the axiological reference specific to our times. The dynamics of the contemporary systems is attained through diversity and not through homogeneity, which is impossible for the two thousand existing peoples and the five thousand ethnicities, each with its specific or resembling traditions. That is why what is needed is education through and for cultural diversity. The philosophy of diversity in action pleads for openness, empathy and the communication of the values of each culture through programs focused on contents (intercultural curriculum) that are centered socially (on the leveling of chances of success) and on the student, who needs to be educated in the spirit of perceiving his/her own future situation. The idea that we intend to advance refers to the fact that the focus shift of the paideic act onto the spiritual potential of the human being may lead to the assuming of the axiological autonomy, which can undoubtedly constitute the vector of our spiritual freedom. We consider that the construction of an axiological conscience, defined by the need of doubling the human existence by culture and faith and objectified through a morally superior attitude and behavior, seems to be a primary objective of our times. Thus, in globalization, the moral values and not the economic or political ones must be primordial. Above the national interests and the cultural differences among the states, what is needed is a universal ethics which should contain a number of consensual values agreed upon by the whole humanity and by the community of states, respectively.

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