CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION
CHALLENGES AND BENEFITS OF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: The policies of the European Union referring to plurilingualism and multiculturalism promote intercultural education based on teaching attitudes of tolerance and openness before diversity. The introduction of the intercultural element in training could be noticed especially in informal and non-formal educational settings. On the one hand, the simple interaction between international students in the campus or at school does not implicitly lead to acquiring and developing intercultural communication competence. On the other hand, this competence cannot be taught in a formal educational setting without the direct contact with “otherness”.

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