EDUCAȚIE PENTRU PLURALISM: CUM RECONCILIEM VALORILE RELIGIOASE ÎNTR-O LUME MARCATĂ DE INDIVIDUALISM ȘI EXTREMISM?

Abstract

Education for pluralism: How do we reconcile religious values in a world marked by individualism and extremism?
Globalization, with its inflation of values and pseudo-values or with the various cultural patterns that are strongly promoted, creates an imbalance in the education system. How does a student or pupil resonate with what they learn in school, especially when they are involuntarily subjected to a different kind of education received through media consumption and through exposure to social media, which provides strong models and powerful messages that often obstruct the natural and structured course of education? The blending of values into an amorphous whole neither helps mitigate excesses nor assists in building the identities of each subject of education. When we speak of globalization, we refer not only to the wide circulation of people and goods, but also to the globalization of evils, pseudo-values, violence, religious or political extremism, and misinformation. All these realities, acutely perceived today, compel us to find quick and correct solutions, not merely situational compromises. Are religious values still relevant today in the context of a global world? The answer may lie in the fact that education, globalization, and religious values are three dimensions that deeply interact in contemporary societies, influencing each other in complex ways. Despite the crises that humanity has faced in the last two decades, there remains a consensus on the primacy that any developed society must give to education as an essential shaping factor that can correct certain deviations or create a framework in which diverse values and opinions can coexist peacefully and be properly embraced without any excess.