Intercultural Education : Case of Mobility in Higher Education

Abstract

A person, who lives in a constantly changing geo-economic and geo-cultural context, should be able to engage in a mutually rewarding dialogue with all the subjects in the context. A person should be able to build up humanitarian and inter-cultural bridges between countries and cultures. Language has an important role in the process, and sometimes it becomes the only tool for mutual understanding of different lingua-ethnical communities. In the paper it is emphasized that in a globalised world intercultural experiences become almost integral part of daily routines of people of almost all ages, and therefore almost change the culture as more traditional societies used to know it. Therefore educators have to start to consider the possibilities to help students (in this paper the context of higher education is analysed) to reflect on both their cultures, their cultural identities, and the perception of other people, whom they will be meeting more often in a globalised world, therefore in this paper results of an empiric study on the students opinions what are the attributions of otherness, and what are their experiences of cultural identities in the multicultural context, are presented.