Ahmet AĞCAOĞLU
Headmaster
Zile Fen Lisesi/Tokat-Turkey
In a globilizing world, the cultures have been
In this context, European projects such as
becoming nearer each other and relationship
eTwinning are especially important for our youth
among them is becoming more intense and as a so that they could recognize other cultures,destroy
result, it necessiates discovering and
the prejudices about others and discover
understanding the other cultures more closely and differences and similarities.I think thanks to such
tolerating the cultural differences and developing internatonal projects the students are getting the
intercultural understanding and gaining the habit chance of developing personal and interpersonal
of living together in a diverse environments.
and social knowledge and skills and make
connections cultures and the cultures of the others
Unfortunately when we look at the happenings in
as well.
different part of the world we are sadly
witnessing radical tendencies or violent acts or
Finally,I should express that the eTwinning
exclusion of those who are from different cultural project to have been carried out by our school on
or ethnic or religious backgrounds.
the issue of radicalization and cultural heritage
has been internationally essential opportunity
Therefore,in today‟s culturally diverse societies,it
for our student in the way of discovering other
is becoming more and more important to
cultures and gaining positive attitude towards
understand and respect for others and tolarate the
cultural differences.
differences and accept them as the richness.
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