Norbert Griesmayer/Werner Wintersteiner (eds.): Beyond Babylon. Paths to an intercultural German didactics.

“Beyond Babylon” means the willingness to accept the differences of others and an open approach to the multilingualism that actually exists. However, our nationally oriented school system still produces a permanently limited perspective and a narrow-minded world view. The absolute claim of one's own culture is already set by the dominance of “mother tongue teaching”. But how can a “culture of multilingualism in German teaching” be developed?