Pedagogy and Intercultural Communication to Manage the Complexity of the Postmodern World

Abstract

The postmodern age is characterised by plurality and complexity, elements that, while offering a multiplication of opportunities, make it more difficult to find vistas of meaning and areas of shared values. In fact, the changes in rules, values and modes of interaction often generate feelings of insecurity or instability that can result in individual and social crises. This paper explains how pedagogy and intercultural communication can offer appropriate responses to the current crisis, given that they are based on fruitful engagement with thought, concepts and preconceptions and that they are geared towards notions “of being”, where the human person in its entirety is pivotal, regardless of its linguistic, cultural, social and religious affiliations.