Abstract
Today the majority of the world’s nations face common challenges, in
terms of regional, ethnic and religious
tensions. In fact, the increasing
waves of immigration and the recent
rise of attacks attributed to extremist
religious ideologies have raised the
bar of such challenges. Therefore, it
is important that these crises should
be overcome with specific approaches, in order to reduce the flow
of prejudices, racism and extremism,
promoting coexistence above all
among the new generations. Since
through education it is possible to
connect different cultures, know and
respect each other, interculturality
should be encouraged more and
more as an effective element for discussion and integration. Yet, such an
option poses real challenges, given
that, first of all, didactic materials
should provide a serious help to acquire intercultural competencies. This
research paper focuses on Italy and
Tunisia as a case study in several
sections (e.g., religious and ethnic
pluralism, intercultural education). The study also interrogates the
image of Islam and the other nonMuslim through textbooks and official school programmes. Despite
the differences between the Italian
and Tunisian cases, the paper concludes that the image of Islam and
the other in both cases are based
on lack of precision and standardization.
Lingua originale | English |
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pagine (da-a) | 270-296 |
Numero di pagine | 27 |
Rivista | RIVISTA DI SCIENZE DELL'EDUCAZIONE |
Volume | LX |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2022 |
Keywords
- Image of Islam
- Image of the other
- Intercultural education
- Italy
- Textbooks
- Tunisia