Education in Values for an Intercultural Coexistence with fewer Conflicts: Moral and Religious Perspectives

Abstract

Intercultural conflicts, when they explode, are not limited to the sphere of the economy or traditions, but affect retroactively on cultural, political and religious ones. It is therefore imperative to intervene with long-term educational strategies, based on a mutual exchange of cultural values, rather than just the enjoyment of welfare system goods and services. For this purpose, the article introduces the worth as the “pull-factor” of the value, and from where it draws a new pattern of coexistence based on shared values addressed to both migrants and indigenous people. The model runs on a multidimensional approach: forming so that each person consciously seizes his own worth (Narrative Method); Identifying the rules of the social context that hamper or speed up the dialogue between holders of different worth (Ethno-methodological Method); Making each ones’ worth “speak to each other”, so that each individual comes into the viewpoint of the other while at the same time absorbs something from the other without losing his individuality (Dialogic Method); Moving up from the worthiness to the values of the other as a launching pad toward shared values (Ethno-methodological Method); Activating vertical bonds without frontiers (linking bonds) by developing competences to interact in divergent contexts (Conflict Management Method); and involving Educational Centers and local policy, which serve to provide ethical and participatory incentives in order to prevent dispersion of the outcome of otherness and the axiological mind that is forming in the classroom (Discursive Method).