The Cultural Identity and Intercultural Understanding : An Analysis of Significance in the Context of Languages

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  • Dr. Nitin Kumar Jain  Assistant Professor, Department of Education Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Bhopal Campus, Bhopal, India

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Abstract

UNESCO's 1996 report of the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century identifies four pillars of learning as the foundation of education for lifelong learning and for drawing out the full potential and latent abilities of learners as individuals and as members of society, while learning to live together for sustainable human development (Delors, 1996). One of the four overlapping and interconnected pillars of learning is

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Dr. Nitin Kumar Jain, " The Cultural Identity and Intercultural Understanding : An Analysis of Significance in the Context of Languages, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp.1948-1953, January-February-2018.