Being with the Other: Education in Diversity, Interculturality and Human Fragilities

The following article offers a perspective on otherness from the standpoint of education in diversity and interculturality, with an understanding of human fragilities and the ancient, modern, and contemporary quests to understand ourselves amid religious, economic, legal, political, and cultural differences. It includes an analysis of diversity and its variants, interculturality, and its importance for 21st-century societies that often fall into homogenizations and demonizations of the other, the new, and what disrupts every day, scientific, and cultural realities. Some conclusions are provided in that search, not of perfect peace or seamless coexistence, but convinced that we are full of challenges, moving from the idealizations to the plural and challenging realities of a humanity that learns to live amid differences.