Universities and those who work there must reimagine spaces, behaviour and processes to promote a sense of belonging for everyone, say Danielle McCullough and Ruth Gotian.
This book challenges educational discourse in relation to teaching about Africa at all levels of the education system in the Global North, with a specific case study focusing on the Republic of ...Ireland. The book provides an interrogation of the proliferation of negative imagery of and messages about African people and African countries and the impact of this on the attitudes and perceptions of children and young people. It explores how predominantly negative stereotyping can be challenged in classrooms through an educational approach grounded in principles of solidarity, interdependence, and social justice.
The book focuses on the premise that existing educational narratives about the African continent and African people are rooted in a preponderance of racialised perceptions: an 'impoverished' continent dependent on the 'benevolence' of the North. The cycle of negativity engendered as a result of such portrayals cannot be broken until educators engage with these matters and bring critical and inquiry-based pedagogies into classrooms. Insights into three key pedagogical areas are provided - active unlearning, translating critical thinking into meaningful action, and developing a race consciousness.
This book will appeal to academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of education and teacher education. It will be of interest to those involved in youth work, as well as intercultural and global citizenship youth trainers.
•Intercultural education may be more effective when the theories about the peripheries exercise self-criticality in theorizing and implementing this pedagogy.•This paper unpacks the cultural and ...epistemic formations of teachers’ understandings of the premises and objectives of intercultural education.•This qualitative study uses email interviews with Moroccan EFL teachers to elicit their epistemic input rather than to situate their responses among mainstream literatures.•Findings illuminated the complex epistemic processes that educators are engaged in to construct their situated knowledges informed by the intersection of available scholarships, their ontologies and contextual factors.•Findings suggest that educators’ exercising of intercultural education is problematized the high-abstract rhetorics in literature and by the lack of training which leads to ‘improvisation’.
The activist underpinnings of intercultural education may be more effective when the theories about the peripheries prioritize self-criticality in conceptualizing and implementing this pedagogy. This warrants examining how epistemic agency is exercised by educators to align the sociologies of intercultural education with the ecologies of their spaces. The aims of this paper are, (a) to unpack the cultural and epistemic formations of teachers’ understandings of the premises and objectives of intercultural education and (b) prompt southern epistemic subjects to produce knowledge about intercultural education that accounts for their epistemological positionalities and their consideration of local intimacies, needs and aspirations. This qualitative study uses email interviews with Moroccan EFL teachers to elicit their epistemic input rather than to situate their responses among mainstream literatures. Findings illuminated the complex epistemic processes that educators are engaged in to construct their situated knowledges informed by the intersection of available scholarships, their ontologies and contextual factors. Findings suggest that educators’ exercising of intercultural education is problematized by the lack of training which leads to ‘improvisation’ and the high-abstract rhetorics in literature which may require educators to sustain more efforts in addition to thorny attempt of doing intercultural education otherwise.
After many years of neglecting the religious dimension within intercultural education, today there is a broad consensus in Europe that religious education represents an important dimension in the ...intercultural education of young people. Awareness of the connection between intercultural and interreligious learning is becoming increasingly stronger and more present. One of the important questions related to intercultural education in general, and especially to the religious dimension of that education, relates to the qualification of the confessional religious education teachers with regard to the achievement of intercultural goals and especially the qualification to develop intercultural competence in students. This paper consists of two parts. The theoretical part elaborates on issues related to the development of intercultural competence in confessional religious education. The second part presents some of the results of the quantitative research (descriptive statistics methods were used), which was carried out in the Republic of Croatia and aimed to examine the attitudes and opinions of religious education teachers regarding the necessary intercultural competence for work in schools. The results have revealed that religious education teachers highly value the development of intercultural competence in students, as well as great motivation and openness of religious education teachers of confessional classes for the development of intercultural education. At the same time, they point to the relative scarcity of methods within religious teaching that promote intercultural and interreligious learning.
This review article offers an analysis of research on Roma and education. A total of 151 peer-reviewed research articles were sampled through systematic searches in four databases, covering the ...period 1997–2016. Inspired by critical approaches in policy analysis, we draw on the concept of problem representations to identify dominant discourses in the research material. The analysis identifies nine problem representations; absence from school, academic achievement, socioeconomic issues, cultural differences, invisibility, teachers’ competencies, hostility, segregation and misguided policy and action. The content of these problem representations suggests that Roma is often framed as either victims or problems in educational research, and that cultural differences are much more dominant as a problem representation in the field than structural aspects such as socioeconomic issues. This critical review can contribute to raise awareness regarding how we frame research questions in the field of Roma and education.
•A systematic search identifies 151 peer-reviewed articles on Roma and education.•Abstracts are analyzed inspired by policy-as-discourse-theory.•Nine problem representations are identified in research on Roma and education.•Cultural differences are more frequently addressed than socioeconomic issues.•Roma is primarily perceived as either problem or victim, and rarely as a resource.
Los instrumentos curriculares suelen ser objeto de luchas políticas; están atravesados por opciones, renuncias y escogencias. No son nunca neutros. Estas páginas quieren ser una contribución a la ...urgente tarea de revisión curricular desde una perspectiva intercultural. En este artículo se presenta el currículo como “un camino” en el que las personas ‘aprendientes’ pueden encontrarse, dialogar y aprender gracias a su diversidad, y en el que es posible promover el diálogo de saberes y culturas. No se trata solamente de prestar atención a la diversidad cultural (lo cual sería ya un paso importante), sino de convertir los procesos educativos en un espacio para la convivencia en la diversidad y para la justicia cultural.
En España, el desarrollo conceptual de diversidad cultural ha quedado vinculado al fenómeno migratorio. La educación intercultural se presenta como una mirada educativa necesaria, con cierta ...trayectoria, que favorece propuestas inclusivas en la escuela. Sin embargo, la literatura científica pone de manifiesto el decalaje existente entre los enfoques discursivos presentes en los centros y el desarrollo de la práctica educativa interculturalizada que, en ocasiones, fomentan la segregación y la exclusión del alumnado de origen extranjero. El objetivo de este estudio es conocer los enfoques teóricos y el tipo de prácticas que predominan en los centros educativos de España. La investigación se apoya en un enfoque cuantitativo basado en la suministración de un cuestionario a la dirección de 1730 centros educativos. Los resultados indican que la educación intercultural no es una opción adoptada en la práctica de forma general por las escuelas participantes. Además, se profundiza en los enfoques y prácticas predominantes en los centros que manifestaron seguir una educación interculturalizada, permitiendo concluir que su conceptualización y desarrollo práctico continúan evolucionando. Sin embargo, sigue pendiente el reto de superar la folclorización de las acciones interculturales y que ésta sea una educación que se extienda a todo el alumnado.
Questo articolo parte dalla proposta di Byram (1997) di considerare il parlante/mediatore interculturale come obiettivo della formazione linguistica ed esplora il potenziale dei social media per lo ...sviluppo delle competenze interculturali degli studenti, attraverso attività didattiche di scoperta e di riflessione. Inoltre, l’articolo discute l’importanza di guidare gli studenti durante le varie fasi di queste attività e propone di partire dall’analisi di piccole unità culturali (Holliday, 1999) per meglio prepararli a comunicare e mediare in situazioni reali di contatto interculturale.
