09 Cultural Diversity and the Culture of Diversity in Education

Abstract

The presence of „the difference” in education is a fact sustained by the meeting between
educational actors, in terms of negotiation on individual and social values. Therefore learning
experiences offered to students have to be constructed in a multifaceted manner. The contemporary
society highlights the difference in terms of its potential, rising it up to a principle level in
educational philosophy. The cultural diversity in education refers to those structures that sustain
plurality, both regarding the functionality of the educational process and the behavior of
educational actors, in a genuine perspective of the difference management. The perspective of
cultural diversity crosses and reorganizes entire educational area on global coordinates and, at
the same time, embraces local specificity in terms of consistency and intensity. That is why we
register an increased level of coherency regarding speeches on this theme and the proposed
standards, while regarding the theory-practice balance, there are still enough discontinuities.