Cruce de culturas en la escuela

Abstract

The educational centres are a multicultural reality that comprises the coexistence
of different cultural minorities, languages, religions, lifestyles and social codes.
The critical pedagogy presents ways of living and learning in this culture crossing overcoming
both the ethnocentric model of racism (assimilation to the culture understood as
“superior”) as well as the relativist model (with emphasis on the difference and denying
equality), aiming for the idea of equality of differences. In the article are presented ways
of crossing cultures and historical backgrounds from a critical, supportive and transformational
approach among languages, religions and believes. It is stated that the consensus
is possible in the framework of the plurality of identities and cultural patterns, and
that egalitarian dialog between cultures in the school promotes not only individual
transformations but also changes in the social relationships.