Identity and socio-educational responsibilities of the educational mediator and the intercultural mediator: towards a clarification of functions

Abstract

It is a well-known fact that the demand for professional mediators will increase in their two characteristic fields of work, that is in schools and in intercultural education. The aims of this article will be to identify their distinctive responsibilities. While there can be no doubt that differences exist, their identification could well prove to be an impediment to the understanding of their performance as there also are, indeed, important identical aspects of their socio-educational responsibilities. The authors of this article employ the comparative method in order to demonstrate that both workplace studies (school mediator and cultural mediator) are compatible with one another.