Reflections on Intercultural Education in a Multiethnic Province
Reflections on Intercultural Education in a Multiethnic Province

Summary/Abstract: After the fall of the communist regime in Romania and of the ideology that affected in different degrees research and history teaching, historians have lately become more and more interested in focussing more on local and regional history than on the national one; this is mainly to rediscover the past of certain neglected regions and persons and to adequately value the local historical heritage, as suggested by some approaches of the international specialised literature. As far as the curriculum is concerned, the Ministry of Education and Research has started to encourage, even under the legislative framework, the elaboration of materials and manuals that value the local historical evolutions of an area or the past of the minorities in Romania. The present paper focuses on Transylvania, as it is the region of Romania with the biggest number of ethnic and confessional minorities and, probably, with the biggest need of intercultural education; however, the elaborated models can also be applied outside the Carpathians, taking into account the peculiarity of the historical evolution.

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