Multicultural Counseling in School

AbstractThe paper proposes to underline the role of the multicultural counseling, in the multiethnic school organizations, for the school integration of the different ethnical pupils. For the achievement of this purpose the following general goal was proposed: the analyze of the way in which the proactive valences of the counseling process prevent the situations of personal, educational and social crisis in the multicultural school. There were considered the following explicative paradigms: a) in the context of a majority culture, the native culture of the ethnic group influence the processes of adaptation/rejection of the rules and conventions for its social integration in the educational group; b) the counselor intervenes professionally for the school integration taking into account the limits of the beneficiaries’ cultural valences; c) in the multicultural school organization, the counselor helps eliminating the discriminative stereotypes and preconceptions and promotes the culture of equality. For this purpose the qualitative type research, using the method of the structured interview, with items corresponding to the following analyze directions: beneficiary – counselor, counselor -beneficiary. On the direction beneficiary - counselor, the analyze unit is represented by the group of different ethnic persons (Bulgarians, Romani, Romanians). The registration unit is the ethnic pupil: Bulgarian, Romani and Romanian, with ages between 10-14. For the research direction counselor – beneficiary, the analyze unit is the counselor of school and professional education. The research underlined the fact that the resistance to change is latent. The rational internalization of the human values eliminate the stereotypes and cultivates tolerance in the context of multiculturalism