Intercultural Education Understood as an Exercise of Education in Values

• Main Author: José M. Touriñán López
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Navarra 2006-10-01
• Series: Estudios sobre Educación
• Subjects: Democratización; Educación en valores; Educación intercultural; Sociedad civil
• Online Access: https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/estudios-sobre-educacion/article/view/25561

In this work we defend that intercultural education is an exercise of education in values that is based on two propositions: -The axiological sense of intercultural communication. -Intercultural communication understood as an exercise in value choice. Our final postulate is that intercultural communication has axiological meaning and, necessarily, we must choose values in intercultural communication, in such a way that intercultural education becomes an exercise of education in values, because: -Interculturalism is an exercise in tolerance. -Intercultural education is a way of personal and groupenhancement. -Intercultural education gives rise to innovation. -Interculturality is an axiological proposal