As the communication between different cultures is becoming more and more frequent, the competence of cross-cultural awareness and collaboration is emerging as a key ability in the 21st century. Face ...to face communication is the most efficient way to cultivate the competence of cross-cultural awareness and collaboration. However, there are very few opportunities currently available for university students to have such face to face communication. Therefore, cross-cultural online collaborative learning utilizing web 2.0 technologies is proposed in this paper as a way to cultivate students' cross-cultural competence. The purpose of the study is therefore to elicit strategies for smooth and effective cross-cultural online collaborative learning through a pilot study between the West and the East. Students of a Chinese University and an American University took part in the study. A mixed method research approach using questionnaire, interview and content analysis was used. The findings of the study revealed that students from both sides were interested in each other's culture, their attitudes to cross-cultural online collaborative learning were positive, and culture had an influence on learning methods. Social interaction played an important role, and students preferred to have more prior knowledge of each other's cultures and backgrounds. They were also inclined towards more in-depth individual conversations. As a result of this study, several strategies are proposed to facilitate effective implementation of cross-cultural collaborative learning in typical higher education settings.
Anti-critical race theory bills have garnered national attention in the K-12 context. However, many critical race theory ("CRT") bans also impact institutions of higher education. The bills seek to ...prohibit the teaching of ideas that include the premise that racism and sexism are pervasive in our society. Those opposing CRT believe its tenets promote anti-white racism, cultural division, and threaten the public institution of education. Scholars and educators have criticized anti-CRT bills for their mischaracterization of the use and tenets of CRT and related theories of scholarship. This Article argues that state anti-CRT laws and policies in higher education run afoul of legal and normative principles. First, the bans conflict with basic First Amendment legal standards. Second, the bans are poor policy choices because they run contrary to the pursuit of equity and inclusion in educational environments as well as the traditional norms of higher education. Part I of the Article provides an overview of recent efforts to ban CRT and their relation to higher education. Part II presents a First Amendment legal analysis of why the bans are legally impermissible as written. Part III contends that anti-CRT legislation, in serving to perpetuate existing racial inequities in education and elsewhere, demonstrates the ongoing importance of CRT and other critical lines of scholarship in higher education.
De acuerdo con la historia reciente la educación en las zonas limítrofes de nuestro país se enfrenta hoy a una evidente migración transfronteriza que reconfigura el espacio contiguo llevándonos a un ...contexto de emergencia humanitaria. Desde ya el cruce de cientos de personas y familias de origen venezolano en la región de Tarapacá por el paso no habilitado de Colchane es un tema relevante en el ámbito de los estudios fronterizos. Esto nos lleva a la reflexión desde un enfoque interdisciplinar, en donde la educación intercultural, la ética y la geografía crítica se reúnen en la ineludible presencia del migrante. En ese sentido, consideramos necesario replantear la educación intercultural desde un nuevo sujeto, sin dejar de lado los actos fundamentales que una ética de lealtad a lo visible ofrece como alternativa a una ética de la frontera fundada hasta el momento en la desigualdad y diferencia en detrimento del migrante. Si bien esta investigación se plantea como una reflexión filosófica, no se duda en recurrir al estudio de fuentes documentales en la prensa escrita regional, e incluso a notas informativas en distintas plataformas virtuales para evidenciar las consecuencias locales de una migración "irregular" que tiene al migrante venezolano como su principal protagonista.
The aim of the present study is to attain new knowledge about interculturalism, ethnicity, and multilingualism in the upper secondary school context in conjunction with pedagogical work with students ...who are newly arrived in the country. The empirical material for the study was collected in the upper secondary context in Sweden and consists of documents, field notes, and qualitative interview. Analysis shows that a distance relationship is created and recreated in the interactive flow between the newly arrived students and the teachers' institution when ethnic social pedagogical monitoring and control are represented in writing by the institution (the upper secondary school) and verbally in the observed and recounted situations. Social pedagogical identities are produced and reproduced in the interactive dynamic, in which the newly arrived student is represented as a successful student, developing in the social pedagogical meaning. However, the newly arrived student also is represented as a humiliated, weary, excluded student who, through demonstration of moral dissolution, displays an ethnified victim student identity that is in opposition to the teachers and institution. This represented humiliation, weariness, and exclusion of the newly arrived student constructs and reconstructs the image of a disadvantaged student. The effect is likely a negative impact on the aims of the upper secondary school to include and integrate newly arrived students into the school community and society at large.
Games are a natural activity—we all know how to play. Perhaps this is the key feature that explains the increase in the use of game-based learning (GBL) strategies: Applying games to education ...converts education into a universal activity. Over the last ten years, the way in which education and training is delivered has considerably changed, not only due to a new technologic environment—plenty of social networks, MOOCs, etc.—but also because of the appearance of new methodologies. Such new methodologies are shifting the center of gravity: from the teacher to the student, with the aim of awakening relational aspects, as well as promoting imagination and divergent thinking. One new approach that holds considerable promise for helping to engage learners is, indeed, game-based learning (GBL). However, while a growing number of institutions are beginning to see the validity of GBL, there are still many challenges to overcome before this type of learning can become widespread.In this Special Issue, we want to gather several studies and experiences in GBL to be shared with other teachers and researchers.
The values of multicultural education in Indonesian middle and high school textbooks have been of great interest among researchers, for the Indonesian people have a variety of cultures, ethnicities, ...religions, as well as different levels of economy. Teaching the values of multicultural education in Indonesian language textbooks aims to foster solidarity and harmony in society. Multicultural education aims to achieve two objectives, namely national unity and cultural diversity, in order to adapt to the changes brought about by the country's economic progress and globalization. This study compared the dominant values of multicultural education between Indonesian language textbooks for grade 7 middle and grade 10 high schools. Based on critical discourse analysis, this study documented the values of multicultural education in three major issues: religion, culture, and ethnicity. The results of the comparative analysis show that high school Indonesian language textbooks dominate the values of multicultural education more than those middle school textbooks. Additionally, the implications and suggestions for further development of the values of multicultural education in the two textbooks are also discussed.
Este artículo se construye bajo las dinámicas del taller de diseño arquitectónico modalidad virtual, y en los cambios que sus procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje requieren, permitiendo superar la ...gestión improvisada de metodologías propias de la presencialidad e incentivando el desarrollo de una educación inclusiva e intercultural.
Background: World-wide migration is one of the most important issues of the 21st century. One crucial problem that has arisen as a result of mass migration is how school teachers are taught to use ...methods and tools that both support intercultural education and the promotion of inclusion as a core pedagogical construct. For these reasons, it is unsurprising that there is an increased need for studies within the field of social sustainability that consider the effects of professional development for teachers. Methods: The current paper presents the assessment of a professional development training course on intercultural education addressed to Italian primary and middle school teachers. The course was framed within a sociocultural approach and had a learner-centered focus. The research methodology used within our research involved a qualitative method to assess the effects of the training course activities. The perceived professional development was analyzed through the administration of an open question survey addressed to the teachers that attended the training course. Results: The qualitative analysis revealed the following themes: Teachers’ attitudes, teaching methods and instruments, community of practice, positive features of the course, course weaknesses, and suggestions for improvement. The results of this analysis showed that the training course was an occasion for teachers to discuss different pedagogical approaches, teaching strategies, and practices in intercultural education. Conclusion: The findings suggest that the activities created an environment for teachers to reflect upon their teaching approaches and practices. Our research shows that professional development interventions of this kind may help to improve intercultural pedagogical abilities among primary and middle school teachers.
The article deals with the problem of the scientific-theoretical interpretation of the methodological basic of the Students’ leisure-time and voluntary activity in their not only future Teacher’s ...work, but as the social work Teacherwho is organized and used the idea of multy-, interand polycultural approaches in Education. It is given concrete expression to the fact, that such approaches in Education connected with the factores of the world globalization and the international migration intensification. The specific features of these approaches are based on the ideas of culture pluralism (culture conformity, culture equality, culture tolerance, culture dialogues). It is demonstrated, that transcultural Education is a new humanist oriented paradigm which is based on the recognition of each Person importance as a different identical and cultural bearer which is necessary to admit, to respect and to use it as the mean of inner enrichment with the help of levelling the negative prejudice and stereotypes, social perception (such as category of race, ethno, religion, gender, language, labour, social position). Transcultural Education gives a great opportunity for the future Teacher to feel herself/himself multicultural person and be ready to develop her/his potential as an organizer of modern pupils’ polycultural upbringing in the condition of the polyethnic Danube region.
The intercultural horizon is a newcomer in the educational landscape of the Republic of Ireland. Its integration into the other horizons of the education system, namely the denominational and the ...national horizons, raises the question of the compatibility of these different horizons. Our analysis focuses on primary education and is based on a multiple-case study carried out in four Irish denominational primary schools the purpose of which is to see to what extent the practice observed is compatible with the new intercultural horizon, particularly as regards two of its dimensions, i.e. the celebration of diversity and anti-racism.
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