Search results for "intercultural education"

Action research as a school-based strategy in intercultural professional development for teachers

2011

Abstract Teacher professional development is a key factor for transforming professional and school culture. This article describes a case study undertaken in a Spanish school during the 2007–2008 academic year. Our aim is to explain how action research methodology was applied to encourage professional and school culture towards an intercultural and inclusive approach. Our results show that the training process challenged teachers’ pre-existing deficit theory perspectives and empowered them as leaders for school change. The conclusions identify the key factors that enabled teachers to engage in critical reflection, and to implement strategies for collaborative work and community participatio…

Main needs and best practices in citizenship and intercultural education in Europe

2008

Training citizenship and intercultural education in Europe: Main needs and best practices

2008

Tra.C.I.E. project: Training Citizenship and Intercultural Education in Europe

2009

The paper is a report about the project “Training Citizenship and Intercultural Education: methods and resources for adult learning (Tra.C.I.E.)”, that is funded by EC (LLP – Grundtvig, Multilateral projects). It involves organizations of 5 European countries (Italy, Bulgaria, Portugal, Romania, and Spain) and it is aimed at developing a set of curricula for the training of the educators in the field of Intercultural and Citizenship Education. During the first stages of the project, an analysis of the main needs of the target groups in the countries of the consortium was performed. At the same time, through the exchange of best practices a set of training resources was selected. Then, on th…

Sensibilidad intercultural y satisfacción con la vida en alumnado autóctono e inmigrante

2019

El objetivo de esta investigación ha sido explorar la relación entre diversas variables personales y escolares (empatía, autoconcepto y percepción de ayuda del profesor), la sensibilidad intercultural y la satisfacción con la vida en alumnado de tercer ciclo de educación primaria. Además, se han analizado posibles diferencias en estas variables entre alumnado autóctono e inmigrante. En esta investigación participaron 473 alumnos (92,2% autóctonos; 7,8% inmigrantes), 52% chicos y 48% chicas, de entre 10 y 13 años (M = 10,79; DT = 0,74). Los resultados obtenidos indican mayor sensibilidad intercultural y autoconcepto emocional en alumnado inmigrante, y mayor satisfacción con la vida y autocon…

Key competences and plurilingual education in the Valencian Region (Spain) : a curricular analysis of Primary Education

2020

The purpose of this work is to study the level of transversality of key competences in Primary Education in the Valencian Community. To this end, an analysis of the Decree 108/2014 cur-rently in effect will be carried out, along with determining the frequency with which each competence is worked on during this stage of education. The data obtained will be interpreted bearing in mind plurilingual programs and, more specifically, the basis of the methodological needs that are pursued in CLIL, the approach to teaching non-linguistic areas through a foreign language. Generally, the findings point to a lack of transversality in some of the competences, one of them being the linguistic competence…

Teachers as frontline agents of integration: Finnish physical education students’ reflections on intercultural encounters

2018

Background and purpose: This article focuses on how future Physical Education and Dance teachers may be better prepared to work in increasingly diverse education environments. It also discusses how tertiary institutions might address issues of social inclusion and cultural pluralism within their programmes, courses and assignments. The authors critically reflect on an experiential learning intervention in Jyväskylä, Finland, in which trainee PE teachers facilitated kinaesthetic language-learning workshops for asylum seekers. The applied use of physical education and dance in this context was aimed at providing a distinct opportunity to consider a PE teacher’s professional competence and rol…

Cultural Identity and Using Music in the Intercultural Educational Process

2014

Abstract Working with music in early childhood education stimulates a child's brain, motor skills and communicative abilities, in addition to their socio-affective relationships. Through songs, a child can start learning about and practicing his or her culture of origin. At this point, the teacher should be aware of pluriculturalism in the classroom and promote awareness of cultural identity as an approach to developing interculturalism. Nursery rhymes, because of their compositional characteristics, are the perfect tool to develop intercultural values and ensure that children not only understand their own culture but also recognise their cultural characteristics in other cultures. A series…

Transformative, interdisciplinary and intercultural learning for developing HEI students’ sustainability-oriented competences : a case study

2022

AbstractThe literature has produced relevant theoretical insights into pedagogical frameworks, tools and competences that would be best suited to teach sustainability at higher education (HE). This article contributes to such a discussion using a course on sustainability developed by us as a case study. Two research questions are tackled in this article: (1) How to empower students to address urban sustainability challenges through the inclusion of transformative, interdisciplinary and intercultural learning into the current HE system? (2) Which pedagogical tools can be used to develop students’ sustainability-oriented competences? To address the research questions, the case study consists …

An intercultural approach to music education: Intercultural proposals for primary education

2011

Este artículo pretende mostrar una aproximación a la educación intercultural mediante el proceso de enseñanza musical porque ésta es una parte de la cultura que nos habla del hombre y de su relación con el mundo. Se intenta responder a las nuevas exigencias derivadas de los procesos migratorios con actividades abiertas y flexibles, con las que los docentes adquieran un nuevo protagonismo como profesionales. Éstos necesitan nuevas competencias para desenvolverse adecuadamente en tales contextos complejos, con el trabajo en equipo como principal estrategia ante posibles problemas derivados del diseño curricular y con la integración de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación…