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Actualidades Investigativas en Educación

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CABRERA RUIZ, Isaac Iran  and  GALLARDO LOPEZ, Teresita de Jesús. Intercultural education of university studenta humanistic-intercultural training approach. Rev. Actual. Investig. Educ [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.3, pp.18-51. ISSN 1409-4703.

This paper addresses intercultural education as an approach that seeks to respond to the interaction in the same society between individuals of different cultures of origin. This paper addresses intercultural education as an approach that seeks to respond to the interaction in the same society between individuals of different cultures of origin. It proposes to develop a humanistic formation, of university level, based on the response of the educational system to intercultural scheme from an intercultural educational environment that setup social development situation. The research was conducted between 2007 and 2010 at the Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas in Santa Clara, Cuba, at two crucial moments: a cross-sectional exploratory diagnosis of the current state of intercultural education and an evaluation research design of the model built. It was applied in the freshman year of two different college courses (Pharmaceutical Sciences and Information Sciences), it took into consideration the criterion of presence or absence of diversity in terms of the culture of origin. The application of intercultural humanistic approach through a model contributed to the formation of points of view on the value of the diversity of the culture of origin, to the awareness of its characteristics of different social realities as well to the reflexive elaboration of action principles to help the development of relationships between people from diverse cultures of origin.

Keywords : Education; Intercultural Humanistic Education; Worldview; Social Situation Development; Higher Education; Cuba.

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