The challenge of intercultural mediation as 'educational competence' in plural contexts

• Main Authors: Giuseppe Milan, Margherita Cestaro
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Universitas Studiorum 2020-06-01
• Series: Open Journal of Humanities
• Subjects: human relationality; education; intercultural mediation; adolescents of the second generation of immigrants; human citizenship; psychology; sociology; pedagogy
• Online Access: https://osf.io/gjh9w/

Now, alterity and difference continue to remain a “problem” – and an “emergency” – that upsets and challenges individual and communities on human, political, social, cultural and religious levels. The purpose of this contribution is to highlight how intercultural mediation, as a “structural dimension” of educational action in multicultural contexts, represents a “professional competence” that the educator and the various socio-educational operators are called to acquire. Specifically, referring to a qualitative research conducted on 40 adolescents belonging to the second generation of immigrants, the text intends to highlight the coordinates that, at anthropological, ethical and socio-cultural levels, should characterize the educational competence of intercultural educational mediation.