{"id":8417,"date":"2025-06-25T08:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academy.grainesdepaix.org\/ressources\/intercultural-skills-education\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:51:46","slug":"intercultural-skills-education","status":"publish","type":"ressource","link":"https:\/\/academy.grainesdepaix.org\/en\/ressources\/intercultural-skills-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Intercultural skills education"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It corresponds to a positive <\/i>and proactive proactive<\/a><\/i> to prevent racism and xenophobia, and more specifically behaviors <\/i>of exclusion, avoidance and closure, as well as attitudes <\/i>of contempt, devaluation, denigration and discrimination that stem in particular from individual and\/or collective fears of increasing diversity.<\/p>\n

It’s a positive <\/i>approach in that it raises children’s awareness of others, with their respective diversity, and encourages them to adopt values, modes of behavior and tools that will give them a taste for successful multiculturalism.<\/p>\n

It’s a proactive <\/i>approach in the sense that it empowers children, encouraging them to co-create themselves, in a dynamic way, a successful living together in diversity.<\/p>\n

It’s an education that proposes going beyond the perspective of prohibitions and rules of tolerance, and focusing on the pleasure of the practice itself.<\/p>\n

Education in intercultural skills aims to boost children’s and young people’s self-confidence and ease in a culturally heterogeneous environment. It also aims to make them aware of the importance of cultivating open identities in order to avoid murderous identities*. <\/p>\n

It includes the learning of specific “savoir-\u00eatre” (attitudes based on shared human values) and “savoir-faire” (behaviors conducive to peaceful intercultural relations, without violence), as well as an awareness of the realities (we are all human beings, equal in rights and consideration, living a growing multiculturality, sharing the same place to live and the same land).<\/p>\n

* Title of one of the key books by Lebanese-French author and essayist Amin Maalouf.<\/p>\n

See also the definition of intercultural skills<\/a>, Education for a culture of peace (ECP)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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