The education in the multicultural society

Authors

  • Mariano Sánchez
  • María Jesús Ordóñez

Abstract

It is possible to consider learning with respect to a process conditioned by a reciprocal action between a person and the world. Ideas of the world are developing under different conditions, climates, races, nations determined by history and formation of countries, delimitation’s determined by time periods connected with special conditions of influence whose origin is the diversity of views of the world. Education is necessary to differentiate between to be, to be able to and purpose of man: an ensemble action of people with the objective to help new borns, children and adolescents learn «human life». Education and its investigation following in the same line as critical thought, are of greatest importance today because of real people, manners of socializing depend more and more on solutions to cultural conflicts that must be posed to education. The field of education could be that of freedom as an essential condition for the free development of personality. Education of free people, which can not have other aims than the free development of people, lies in the elimination of all coercion. The result would b an education «model» whose ideals are defined by the development of free people, since the characteristic of education in modern times is based on eliminating coercion. The multicultural curriculum needs a democratic program to make the best decisions about the academic contents to represent everyone’s interests. This the a challenge: Suceed in making the cultural diversity between people and groups, etc. not a cause of exclusion but a factor of human enrichment.

Keywords

socialization, instruction, multiculturality, sociology, education

Published

1997-10-01

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