The Importance of the Inclusion of Intercultural Diversity

Authors

  • Bisera Jevtić Full Professor
  • Danijela Milošević Research Trainee

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18662/mjesp/5.1/33

Keywords:

communication, diversity, identity, inclusion, interculturalism

Abstract

The key issue is how to build an educational system that respects individual diversity while ensuring that diversity is included as much as possible in accordance with our conditions and capabilities. Searching for the structure of commitment, we wanted to diagnose the current state of variables that determine the current predictors that encourage and facilitate the inclusion of intercultural diversity of individuals as well as predictors that prevent equal approach for all cultures in the educational system. The interculturalism limited only on supporting or respecting diversity, will not yield significant results if it does not try to find the conditions for the development of this diversity. Social distance as a product of confrontation might have bad influence on the power of individual consciousness, an important prerequisite for intercultural identity, which is fundamentally built only by communication between two different parties - representatives of different cultural identities, who strive to become an intercultural community. This paper aims to present and point out the importance of the development of consciousness as a prerequisite for intercultural identity and inclusion of intercultural diversity, as well as to point out that it is necessary to communicate regardless of the differences among us, because here lies the beauty of an intercultural identity that is hidden in diversity.

Author Biographies

Bisera Jevtić, Full Professor

Departman of pedagogy

Danijela Milošević, Research Trainee

Departman of pedagogy

References

Bedeković, V (2018). Poznavanje temeljnih vrijednosti interkulturalizma u funkciji promicanja europskih vrijednosti [Knowledge of the fundamental values of interculturalism in the function of promoting European values]. In Hrvatić, N. (Ed.). Interkulturalne kompetencije i europske vrijednosti (pp. 18-30). Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu.

Bennett, M. J. (2009). Defining, measuring, and facilitating intercultural learning: a conceptual introduction to the Intercultural Education double supplement. Intercultural education, 20(sup1), S1-S13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14675980903370763

Coffee, K. (2008). Cultural inclusion, exclusion and the formative roles of museums. Museum Management and Curatorship, 23(3), 261-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647770802234078

Cvetko, J., Gudelj, M., & Hrgovan, L. (2000). Inkluzija[Inclusion]. Diskrepancija, 1(1), 24-28.

Dikić, N. (2017). Uvažavanje interkulturalnosti kao način razmišljanja [Respect for interculturality as a way of thinking]. Visoka hotelijerska škola.

Jevtić, B. (2012). Pedagogija moralnosti [Pedagogy of morality]. Filozofski fakultet.

Piršl, E. (2011). Odgoj i obrazovanje za interkulturalnu kompetenciju [Upbringing and education for intercultural competence]. Pedagogijska istraživanja, 8(1), 53-70.

Žegarac, N., Kišjuhas, A., & Koprivica, I. (2016). Glossary of culturally competent practice [Respect for interculturality as a way of thinking]. Grafičar.

Downloads

Published

2022-08-26

How to Cite

Jevtić, B., & Milošević, D. (2022). The Importance of the Inclusion of Intercultural Diversity. Moldavian Journal for Education and Social Psychology, 5(1), 62-69. https://doi.org/10.18662/mjesp/5.1/33

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2021): Moldavian Journal for Education and Social Psychology

Section

Theoretical Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors & LUMEN Publishing House

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g. post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in the journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g. in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as an earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

The Journal has an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND

CC_BY_NC_ND