ABSTRACT

Interculturally oriented education has not been under public debate in Romania. The topic is not well known in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and is often mistaken for education in the mother tongues of the minority communities. There are a number of reasons why this form of pedagogy lags behind, the major reason being the lack of competencies in this field. Political trends, conservative as a rule, did not encourage development of an open pedagogy sensitive to transnational communication. Now at its beginnings, the civil society has only sporadically intervened in this process, not having the expected impact on the representative personalities of culture, let alone on the politicians in power.