Intercultural Education for Intercultural Competence: A New Kind of Literacy for Sustainable Development

The concept of culture is subject to many different interpretations. For the present purpose, the wide-ranging definition of Pederson (2000), as summarized by Corey et al. (2011), would appear suitable. In this definition culture was conceptualized as including “demographic variables such as age, gender, and place of residence; status variables such as social, educational and economic background; formal and informal affiliations; and the ethnographic variables of nationality, ethnicity, language, and religion” (p.115) ..