THROUGH TOLERANCE AND RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY: AN EDUCATION TO REEDUCATE THE MAN OF TODAY

Abstract

This paper is born from studies and researches on the concept of culture and cultural identity in the disciplina of "Topics I: Teaching and Valuing Diversity", at the Postgraduate Program in Teaching Language and Literature (PPGL-UFT). This paper aims to reflect and analyze the postmodern cultural identity in view of a metamorphic educational perspective and the solidarity of the human being. The methodology used hereby was the theoretical one, of bibliographical nature, it was made through analyzes of articles, magazines, books and specialized websites in the subject. The results show that the defragmentation of identity in the postmodernity is only a beginning of a new era and a new way of being-in-the-world, without certainties, without fixed ports, without absolute truths. The crisis of identity also brings with it a non-acceptance of the other, of the different, of the diversity. It is necessary, then, an education that is capable of raising in the minds the respect towards the differents and a sincere search of one`s own truth.