Rendering Intercultural Dimension of the Future Teacher Competence Profile: New Proposals and Training Models
Rendering Intercultural Dimension of the Future Teacher Competence Profile: New Proposals and Training Models

Summary/Abstract: The postmodern, contemporary society can be characterized by cosmopolitanism in what it concerns the ethnical, cultural and religious diversity and variety and all these determine special efforts to integrate, cohabit and create equilibrium between individuality and otherness. Therefore, education also has to aimto formfuture citizens fromthe perspective of accepting and respecting the specificity and values of other cultural, religious and ethnical communities. The intercultural education is one of the new dimensions of education, which plays an important role on the personality formation of the postmodern man. The present study aims to prove the necessity to educate children from the intercultural perspective. We consider that in order to achieve this goal it is important to firstly form the trainers. Consequently, we aim to analyse the role of the intercultural education in shaping the competences for the didactic career, the competence profile of the future teacher. The fundamental hypothesis of the investigative approach implied to admit the need for training the students – future teachers from the perspective of the intercultural education. In order to prove the reliability of this hypothesis we used a sample of 110 students – future teachers, who take part in the program for teacher training, level II psycho-pedagogy. The research methods used were the opinion questionnaire and the focus-group interview, which meant to find the students’ opinion on the possibility of developing the intercultural competence of the students – future teachers through the present Curriculum of the psycho-pedagogical programme.

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