Intercultural and intracultural Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina

<p>The &nbsp;current &nbsp;practice &nbsp;within &nbsp;the &nbsp;Bosnian-Herzegovinian &nbsp;educational &nbsp;system &nbsp;indicates&nbsp;<br />inconsistencies in implementing intercultural and &nbsp;intracultural educational practices. They are&nbsp;<br />not even differentiated but rather equated. However, for the preservation of all the values that&nbsp;<br />Bosnia &nbsp;and &nbsp;Herzegovina &nbsp;embodies, &nbsp;it &nbsp;is &nbsp;necessary &nbsp;to &nbsp;preserve &nbsp;the &nbsp;unique &nbsp;BosnianHerzegovinian &nbsp;habitus, &nbsp;composed &nbsp;of &nbsp;all &nbsp;cultural &nbsp;traditions &nbsp;(Bosniak, &nbsp;Croatian, &nbsp;Serbian,&nbsp;<br />Jewish, Roma, and others), and this can only be achieved through intracultural education.&nbsp;<br />What needs to be done within the educational system is the introduction of the subject of course&nbsp;<br />&ldquo;Intracultural &nbsp;education&rdquo; &nbsp;in &nbsp;primary &nbsp;and &nbsp;secondary &nbsp;schools &nbsp;and &nbsp;the &nbsp;implementation &nbsp;of&nbsp;<br />intracultural &nbsp;policies &nbsp;through &nbsp;the &nbsp;ministries &nbsp;of &nbsp;education &nbsp;at &nbsp;the &nbsp;state, &nbsp;entity, &nbsp;and &nbsp;cantonal&nbsp;<br />levels, as well as intracultural education across all segments of society. This paper highl ights&nbsp;<br />the differences between intercultural and intracultural education and provides guidelines on&nbsp;<br />how to implement the necessary intracultural education policy. As a paradigm, some positive&nbsp;<br />practices within Bosnian-Herzegovinian culture and literature are presented, which can serve&nbsp;<br />as a good foundation for further action.</p>