Attitudes and perceptions towards cultural diversity and interculturality in the university context. A comparative study

Abstract

The university context is a privileged space for intercultural training of future professionals in education, a stage where approaching theoretical models and practical, useful and effective strategies to cultivate in the young students of the university degrees of education desire to understand and develop intercultural in their future teaching activities. However, studies in the University classroom, to detect attitudes and educational conceptions to multiculturalism and cultural diversity have been scarce. In this article show the most relevant results from a recent comparative study within the framework of the educational innovation project called “Building interculturality and culture of diversity in the University context” (PIE15-31) conducted with University students in 1st and 4th year of the degree of primary of the faculties of Education Sciences of the University Public of Navarre and Malaga University.