KEY CONCEPTSOF INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

1. CULTURE
1. A set of learned values, beliefs, feelings and behaviors shared by members of a group that distinguish them from other groups.
  1. Comprehensive aspect
    1. This includes conscious or underlying explanations of the world and one’s own and other people’s place within it.
  2. Dynamic aspect
    1. culture as the property of the individual is open to further development depending on knowledge and experience.
  3. Implications for intercultural education
    1. It deals with the people who interact daily in multicultural educational contexts - teachers and students, policy makers and administrators.
2. DIVERSITY, OTHERNESS AND DIFFERENCE
1. It must be emphasised that cultural diversity has always been a distinctive feature of most societies, both in Europe and worldwide.
2. Implications for intercultural education
  1. Diversity has always been a common feature of every educational setting, although quite often this has been overlooked or pushed under the carpet
3. Diversity refers to the observation of variation within a larger group that shares a common basis
3. MULTICULTURALISM, PLURICULTURALISM, INTERCULTURALISM
1. Multiculturalism
  1. It emphasizes the presence of various groups in a community.
2. Pluriculturalism
  1. Refers to the integration of aspects of other cultures by the individual
3. Interculturalism
  1. Interculturalism is the active dimension of diversity. Its purpose is to enhance diversity and complexity through a constant cultural dynamism
4. MAJORITY AND MINORITY CULTURES, INCLUSION VS. EXCLUSION
1. Attitudes towards otherness and difference indicate the degree of acceptance of the individual of or by a group or the relationship of minority groups to the majority group.
  1. Implications for intercultural education
    1. A complex classroom setting may bring together learners at very different stages of development when it comes to their sensitivity, their cognitive skills, attitudes and linguistic skills.
5. STEREOTYPES
1. According to sociologists, stereotypes are based on demarcation and the establishment of distinct categories of properties and behaviour attributed to groups of persons.
  1. Implications for intercultural education
    1. Talking about stereotypes (and prejudices) in a multicultural group is essential for mutual understanding.
6. INTERIM WORLDS
1. The world in our minds is not a copy or duplicate of the world around us but a constructive entity which we create and test in our social communities.
  1. Implications for intercultural education
    1. The fact that interim worlds are unstable and liable to change provides an opportunity for education.
7. CULTURE AND LANGUAGE
1. Languages are the result of a collective and historical experience and express culturally specific worldviews and value systems.
  1. Implications for intercultural education
    1. In classrooms today, in nearly every country of the world, multilingualism is the rule rather than the exception.

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