Relational identity and principle of solidarity as the bases for the intercultural education

Having established the failure of multiculturalism and all theoretical and practical alternatives for the study, analysis and management of social diversity and complexity, emerges the need to raise multiculturalism as the only logical alternative for the integration of all people in the society. All this based on a new sense of identity that is able to respect, accept and integrate the differences, also with preserving the diverse cultural identities. In this sense, the relational approach proves to be the only one capable of providing an entire body of theory and a new interpretive paradigm for analysis and understanding of what it has meant the increasing heterogeneity of modern societies and its implications for diversity. Beyond structuralist functionalism, Donati proposes a new concept of relational identity and the principle of solidarity as a basis for the intercultural in the new societal citizenship highly complex and differentiated that emerges in contemporary societies.