Zusammenfassung der Ressource
KEY CONCEPTSOF
INTERCULTURAL
EDUCATION
- 1. CULTURE
- A set of learned values, beliefs,
feelings and behaviors shared by
members of a group that distinguish
them from other groups.
- Comprehensive
aspect
- This includes conscious or
underlying explanations of the
world and one’s own and other
people’s place within it.
- Dynamic
aspect
- culture as the property of the
individual is open to further
development depending on knowledge
and experience.
- Implications for
intercultural education
- It deals with the people who interact
daily in multicultural educational
contexts - teachers and students, policy
makers and administrators.
- 2. DIVERSITY,
OTHERNESS AND
DIFFERENCE
- It must be emphasised that cultural
diversity has always been a
distinctive feature of most societies,
both in Europe and worldwide.
- Implications for
intercultural education
- Diversity has always been a common feature
of every educational setting, although quite
often this has been overlooked or pushed under
the carpet
- Diversity refers to the observation
of variation within a larger group
that shares a common basis
- 3. MULTICULTURALISM,
PLURICULTURALISM,
INTERCULTURALISM
- Multiculturalism
- It emphasizes the presence
of various groups in a
community.
- Pluriculturalism
- Refers to the integration
of aspects of other
cultures by the individual
- Interculturalism
- 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
- 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.
- Implications for intercultural
education
- 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
- According to sociologists, stereotypes
are based on demarcation and the
establishment of distinct categories of
properties and behaviour attributed to
groups of persons.
- Implications for intercultural
education
- Talking about stereotypes (and prejudices) in
a multicultural group is essential for mutual
understanding.
- 6. INTERIM
WORLDS
- 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.
- Implications for
intercultural education
- The fact that interim worlds are
unstable and liable to change provides
an opportunity for education.
- 7. CULTURE AND
LANGUAGE
- Languages are the result of a collective
and historical experience and express
culturally specific worldviews and value
systems.
- Implications for
intercultural education
- In classrooms today, in nearly
every country of the world,
multilingualism is the rule
rather than the exception.