Principles and pedagogical conditions for the development of intercultural sensitiveness and empathy in students in a multicultural educational space

intercultural communication is today transforming into a complex, polyphonic space of meanings, where cultural codes not only intersect but engage in a profound dialectical dialogue. Each act of interaction represents a unique, creative process of cultural translation and reinterpretation, where participants simultaneously act as translators of their own identity and active recipients of alternative worldview contexts. The communicative space ceases to be a linear channel for information transfer, becoming a complex cognitive system of mutual enrichment and semantic exchange. Here, cultural differences become not a barrier, but a source of potential semantic transformations, where each participant in the dialogue is both the bearer of a unique perspective and a conduit for cultural convergence. Intercultural communication today is not simply an exchange of messages, but a profound process of mutual meaning-generation, where the boundary between "us" and "them" is becoming increasingly fluid and permeable. Special attention is given to the principles and pedagogical conditions for developing intercultural sensitivity and empathy in students in a multicultural educational environment.

multiculturalism, education, empathy, student, tolerance