Cross-cultural Education

Abstract

Acknowledging the Canadian Mosaic M ulticulturalism in Canada is growing stronger. It offers a paradigm shift for re-imagining how substantive issues related to minority-society relations can be conceived, constructed, expressed, challenged or transformed. Do we promote the myth of sameness while attempting to train pastors and counsellors in respecting diversity? Many professional associations encourage training programs to recruit students from racial and cultural diversity. This means that we need to structure the educational experience differently. As the dominant culture, we cannot be so sure that the way we view relationships and human development is the right and only way! Our definition of human development is culturally based. Our interventions are political.