Education for Intercultural Coexistence

Abstract

This paper focuses on the necessity of developing the affective intercultural communicative competence to encourage intercultural coexistence, which is so distinctive of our current society. It presents a brief review of some basic terminology related to the subject and it outlines some difficulties for the intercultural coexistence. Within the educational context, the treatment of the multicultural issues in the classroom provides diverse opportunities to solve this type of intercultural conflicts: teaching values, using conflict as a learning resource and preventing. The present study delves into the cultural stereotypes that exist in the Spanish society, as well as their linguistic representations. This paper tries to collaborate in the formation of positive attitudes towards cultural diversity. At the end, it offers a didactic proposal for the application of the theme dealt with in this article to the class of Spanish Language and Literature.