Between science and society: teaching intercultural competence

Since 1992 the Ethnology in Schools and Adult Education Association has been implementing knowledge transfer together with the University of Münster ’ a guest commentary by Ursula Bertels

Intercultural competence is increasingly being seen as an important fundamental requirement for people living together in a multicultural society. Almost all of the current coalition agreements in governments at both national and federal state levels in Germany, for example, include calls for measures for the teaching of intercultural competence. As a result, the social relevance of such competence is moving more and more into the focus of public institutions such as local government, charities and schools. ...