INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION, A KEY ISSUE IN THE INNOVATION OF THE INITIAL TRAINING OF THE FUTURE TEACHERS IN PRIMARY AND PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION.CASE STUDY

Abstract

Significant changes in society in the late twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first led to increase and strengthen cross-border exchanges and multi- and intercultural human relations. With them, contacts between people belonging to different cultural areas have multiplied and intensified. Linguistically, culturally and axiologically heterogeneous institutions and companies have also diversified.In recent decades, it has become increasingly common to talk about intercultural communication, intercultural management, intercultural psychology and intercultural relations. Therefore a new formative vision for the growth of young generations and a new approach to learning and education has become a necessity, either taking into account the contemporary processes, or participating in facilitating these processes, a better understanding and a deeper respect between people, groups and /or human communities.This study seeks to capture the way future teachers in primary and pre-primary education, in their initial phase of training at UPG Ploiesti, understand the importance of intercultural education for their professional training, on the one hand, and to formulate proposals on the other hand.