INTERCULTURAL PEDAGOGY AS RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PAIDEIA MEANING
INTERCULTURAL PEDAGOGY AS RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PAIDEIA MEANING

Summary/Abstract: We live in a knowledge-and-learning-based society. Human learning experiences multiply, diversify, expand to the level of the entire society and they spread throughout lifetime. Starting from the premise of a formation-information relationship, found in any educational course, information gains ground to the detriment of formation. Should pre-industrial societies hold the forming of characters as their major goal, in the industrial society, and in particular in the post-industrial society, education’s formative traits are gradually marginalized, in favor of excessively and exclusively cultivating the thirst of being informed. Thus, humanity reaches a point of being informed only for the sake of information, in the absence of value or awareness of selection and use of the avalanche of data that overwhelms the contemporary man’s life. Thus, we witness a loss of the true paideia meaning of education, whose components are vital for any educational process all over the world. Intercultural pedagogy has come into existence at the same time with appearance of cultural globalization, as a necessity of educating people able to live in a new world due to their human qualities. The success of such an endeavor is given by the very return to the MAN, to the cultivation of his humanity, through transmitting in him adequate attitudes toward the infinite human diversity and by facilitating solidary interactions among people and relationships based on mutual recognition and respect. The survey made through the current research intends to identify a set of attitudes manifested by students, their approach to the Others, but equally, the sources of their becoming human beings in a dynamic and polychromic world.

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