Adult education, narratives and cultural values

Abstract

In these recent decades, mainly in the western world, we have experienced and are still experiencing profound economic and social changes, which give way to new and different migratory fluxes in the search for better living conditions. In this manner the human tissue that composes societies is today certainly diverse. There we can now find new minorities originating from immigration, whose members possess ethnic, religious, cultural and linguistic characteristics differing from those of the rest of the population of the host communities, which often bring about problems of intolerance, injustice and radicalism. Education, especially adult education, can play a special role in the eradication of those phenomena through the analysis of some contents of narratives or short stories. These contents encourage the dialogue and the interaction, aid the integration, stimulate mutual knowledge, promoting peace.