Intercultural Understanding and Human Rights Education ... - APCEIU

| Summary of Presentation |
- Dr. Werner Wintersteiner
This presentation deals with three
aspects: globalisation, culture, and
transcultural education; peace education
and intercultural education; and the
EURED experience from 2004 to 2006.
The discussion will show how mass
migration, mass media and other
phenomena of globalisation affect our
concepts of cultures and societies as
homogenous and distinct entities that are
constantly reproduced by national
education (education as the basic form of
nation-building). The argument will be, in
order to face the global challenges of a
peaceful, just and human development of
all human beings, we need a new type of
education a transcultural, global peace
education.
The main reason for the convergence of
intercultural education and peace
education is the globalising of societies
and cultures, which leads to a loss of
many traditional securities and raises the
question of identity in a new way. Thus, a
new kind of education is needed that is
based on heterological thinking and
integrates transcultural aspects into a
concept of non-violent encounters with the
other .
The EURED experience is used as a
positive example of how to prepare
teachers to develop a transcultural
perspective: The first European-wide inservice
teacher training course on human
rights and peace education offered a
plenitude of intercultural and transcultural
experiences: the diversity among the
participants, as well as among the
leadership team, the different venues (five
European countries) and, crucially,
diversity as a topic of the course itself.
These experiences are reflected in the
arguments on transcultural peace
education and with a critical comment on
the experience of the pilot course.
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