Intercultural Education (UNESCO guidelines)

Intercultural Education

• Intercultural education promotes the understanding of different people and cultures.
• It includes teachings that accept and respect the normality of diversity in all areas of life.
• It makes every effort to sensitize the learner to the notion that we have naturally developed in different ways.
• It seeks to explore, examine and challenge all forms of "isms" and xenophobia, while promoting equal opportunity.
• Intercultural education works to transform not only the individual but the institution as a metaphor and mechanism for the transformation of society.

Development of Intercultural Competence

• Intercultural competence can be developed in different ways through different types of education: formal, non-formal and informal.
• Each type of education could be used when developing intercultural competence of teachers and students.