The current article deals with the issue of intercultural education and teacher training programmes in Romania, which need to include intercultural elements into primary and secondary education.
In respect of the Fantini's (2000) IC model which includes awareness, attitudes, skills, and knowledge, this IC model is likely to overlap with Byram's (1997) intercultural elements.
What are the specifically "intercultural" elements to this, except that an ethnic line is crossed, which is a trivia because shared humanity must always be at work?
In professional networking settings, books, especially those with intercultural elements, provide excellent conversation pathways.
The latter, as a quiz, consisted of twenty multiple-choice items (each of IC elements, namely intercultural knowledge, attitudes, awareness, and skills has 5 items, respectively).
The former, as an achievement test, was composed of forty multiple choice items (each of IC elements, namely intercultural knowledge, attitudes, awareness, & skills has 10 items, respectively).
After summarizing each author's potion (I), we will comment on the following set of relations between their basic elements: (II) The relation between intercultural contact and intercultural dialogue; (III) The relation between contact at the local level and the societal/state level; (IV) The relation between group-specific measures, intercultural contact and mainstreaming.
This ironic lack of critical attention to already-hybridized popular forms, with established strategies for mixing Western and local elements well before the current "intercultural performance" trend, indicates the scope for re-examining models of intercultural theatre generally, and intercultural Shakespeare in particular.
This means that the most significantly improved IC component was intercultural knowledge whilst the least significantly improved was intercultural awareness.
In their contribution, François Boucher and Jocelyn Maclure, disentangle both paradigms into separate elements in order to brew a 'multicultural-intercultural position' that is optimally adapted to the current superdiverse societies.
Three components of intercultural communication have been described [ 24]: A cognitive component encompassing knowledge, understanding and awareness of all the cultural and communicative elements, both in oneself and others, in order to promote effective communication.
