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  • Multicultural education in the current school curriculum
    Kordigel Aberšek, Metka
    Since "once upon a time" people from all parts of the world felt the need to sum up the wisdom they had acquired, and the ethical principles according to which they lived into fairy tales, narratives ... and fables. Each nation has developed its own tales, texts, which beside the universal verbalize also the special, or national, that which makes a group of people unique and therefore in the human mosaic also so precious. That is, why fairy tales from all parts of the world are a powerful tool for achieving multiculturalism. That is a reason, why they, although a little bit old fashioned, they may not disappear from the curricula of mother tongue education. They must be seen as a tool forencouraging the process of inculturation and the process of multiculturalism. The problem in this context could be the fact that fairy tales from different parts of the world differ from each other: a fairy tale from China, India or Africa differs from the European one. Is it possible thatan European child comprehends the wisdom of the ethical message in the Chinese, Indian or African tale? In our presentation we wish to introduce the results of an empirical study on the reception of the African narrative. We were interested in that part of child's literary reception, connected with the ethical component of the fairy tale, and in this connection we were interested, if a fairy tale from an other part of the world could be used as a tool for achieving a greater level of multiculturality.
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2006
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 14803208