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Multicultural and Intercultural Common Heritage in Transylvania

Received: 18 February 2017     Accepted: 27 February 2017     Published: 31 October 2017
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The focus of this paper is the examination of multicultural and intercultural values along with the description of cultural heritage in order to support the hypothesis that these principles have an impact on educational cooperation practices and semantic features of cultural entities. The study presented in this paper will show that intercultural awareness is crucial, since a nation passes on its culture to its youth so as to preserve its national character for the future. My purpose is to develop consciousness of the Transylvanian people belonging to the Romanian, Hungarian and the Saxon cultures, as they became the melting pot of all these forces, merging the Transylvanian character in a truly national culture. Therefore, teaching and learning about intercultural communicative competence is a challenge to raise students’ awareness of their own culture, as well as to help them interpret and understand other cultures. It is not just a body of knowledge, but a set of practices requiring information, skills, attitudes which make what culture is: language that maintains discourse relations by providing, in a concise way, an ocean of information about how people conceptualize the world around them.

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 2, Issue 5)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijecs.20170205.12
Page(s) 147-157
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Keywords

Intercultural Awareness, Identity, Cultural Heritage

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