Intercultural Competences Across The School Curriculum

The aims of the

Comenius in Intercultural Competences Across The School Curriculum (Circum)

include the following:

• Help young people to develop the ability to recognize inequality, injustice, racism, prejudice and bias.
• Equip young people to challenge and to try to change these manifestations when they encounter them.
• Enable young people to appreciate the richness of a diversity of cultures.
• Support young people in practical ways to recognize and to challenge prejudice and discrimination where they exist.

Someone with some degree of intercultural competence is someone who 

• is able to see relationships between different cultures - both internal and external to a society
• is able to mediate, that is interpret each in terms of the other, either for themselves or for other people
• has a critical or analytical understanding of their own and other cultures
• is conscious of their own perspective, of the way in which their thinking is culturally
• is determined, rather than believing that their understanding and perspective is natural