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Intercultural and intracultural Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina

By
Šeherzada Džafić
Šeherzada Džafić
Editor: Enes Prasko

Abstract

The  current  practice  within  the  Bosnian-Herzegovinian  educational  system  indicates inconsistencies in implementing intercultural and  intracultural educational practices. They are not even differentiated but rather equated. However, for the preservation of all the values that Bosnia  and  Herzegovina  embodies,  it  is  necessary  to  preserve  the  unique  BosnianHerzegovinian  habitus,  composed  of  all  cultural  traditions  (Bosniak,  Croatian,  Serbian, Jewish, Roma, and others), and this can only be achieved through intracultural education. What needs to be done within the educational system is the introduction of the subject of course “Intracultural  education”  in  primary  and  secondary  schools  and  the  implementation  of intracultural  policies  through  the  ministries  of  education  at  the  state,  entity,  and  cantonal 
levels, as well as intracultural education across all segments of society. This paper highl ights the differences between intercultural and intracultural education and provides guidelines on how to implement the necessary intracultural education policy. As a paradigm, some positive practices within Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture and literature are presented, which can serve as a good foundation for further action.

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