The Challenges of Intercultural Education in the 21st Century

Abstract

In essence, modern education has a character of socio-civilizational evangelization in Western values, traditions and ways of thinking, thus achieving "to create a new species: the Hellenized Asians, the Greco-Latin blacks and the Westernized Indians", following the Reflection by Jean-Paul Sartre (2008); however, given the profound socio-cultural changes that have transformed contemporary societies, in the global order, the socio-educational paradigm that best responds to the demands, demands, and historical-civilizing challenges proposed by the dynamics of the new contexts of The construction of the plural and multicultural society, at the same time that it constitutes a transversal strategy to the institutional formative processes, is the model of the Intercultural Education, as an emergent device of the societal formation from, in and for the socio-cultural diversity.