Intercultural development through intercultural awareness and cultural briefing

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Georgeta Rata

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The purpose of the paper is to show that developing our students and (non-)teaching staff interculturally needs raising intercultural awareness and cultural briefing. The method used is documenting (to clarify the concepts culture, multiculturality, cross-culturality, inter-culturality, and intercultural awareness, and to develop teaching aids) and testing the intercultural communication competence of both students and teachers after attending specific activities. Expected outcomes of such an approach would be: in students and teachers: challenging viewpoints that perpetuate inequality and discrimination; reflecting on European topics; enhancing intercultural awareness; understanding and responding to social, linguistic, and cultural diversity; identifying common values in spite of cultural differences; improving cultural awareness; integrating within the new socio-cultural environments, respecting cultural diversity and fighting against racism or xenophobia; in organisations: addressing target groups by providing new and improved practices to cater for the needs of disadvantaged groups and to deal with social, linguistic, and cultural diversity.

Keywords: Intercultural development; intercultural awareness; cultural briefing.

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Rata, G. (2017). Intercultural development through intercultural awareness and cultural briefing. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences, 4(1), 61–67. https://doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v4i1.2053
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