Identity, Multiculturalism, and Interculturality in School Textbooks

Abstract

Living a more and more diverse world involves teaching the students how to solve cultural issues, through knowledge and dialogue. Therefore, the secondary school curriculum proposes an identity and intercultural competence that should prepare students to deal with cultural diversity. As the competence is new for the Romanian Language and Literature teachers, their points of view are divergent. The present paper explores the relationship between identity, multiculturalism and interculturality, the cultural dialogue strategies one can find in secondary school textbooks. It investigates the meaning of identity for the textbook authors, the kind of diversity they picture and the specificity of the cultural dialogue.