The intercultural communicative competence development into the initial teacher training

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a reflection about challenges raised to initial teacher training into a changing society, which is characterized by current tendencies demanding the different vision and ways of life coexistence. The Intercultural Communicative Competence concept, developed by Byram (1997), is used as a framework for thinking about teacher compromise with the improving a complex citizenship (Bolivar 2004). As a context, the cultural matrix into which the school has done its mission and the changes meaning by the intercultural education programs are described.