Dialogue between disciplines at the “Third Bicocca’s Intercultural Day”: Crossing views on educational and linguistic research

Abstract

The "Third intercultural Day" as well as the first two (in 2002 and 2004) is a conference that enabled the sharing of research that contribute to the training of the intercultural thought in education. The conference was aimed primarily to teachers, educators, students of educational sciences. The task of pedagogical reflection is to research and learn about the best practices found in various areas of knowledge, which may contribute to the training of the intercultural thinking. There is a real communicative difficulties that may occur at school between parents and teachers. This  is a problem not only of language, has its origin in the different life experiences and cultures of education to which foreign parents refer to it. However, the intercultural thought in education leads to trust that the educational system can actually communicate and interact well with the multicultural society, with different languages and cultures that come with good reason inside. In education to think and act according to the principles of intercultural pedagogy means placed in a perspective of social justice, recognition of rights, development of individual skills, enhancement of the individual as different as their backgrounds.