Without Borders: Intercultural Education through Innovative tools and ICT

Migration is a multidimensional and multilevel phenomenon. Its complexity is due to the fact that it is associated with human evolution, and it concerns many areas, such as economic policy and culture, but also psychology and sociology. The intercultural approach to a group of learners is expressed through a process where the emphasis is on getting to know and interact with the different cultures that make up a society. Cultural diversity is undoubtedly reflected in the public school. The classroom environment itself, when
judged to be ‘intercultural’, aims to create a climate of cooperation and communication, acceptance and respect for the particularity of the ‘other’, and to provide equal access to every area of life.
The aim of the course is to empower educators to develop an intercultural approach and creative utilization of innovative educational materials in the field of intercultural education and training with original activities. By the end of the course, trainees will have developed a set of social and communicational skills that allow individuals to recognize and accept diversity and to creatively exploit the various elements associated with it, to be able to function in contexts where different cultures intersect codes, and to have the ability to review and adjust previous views and attitudes. At the practical level, that is, at the classroom level, the intercultural approach through interpretive techniques in this particular seminar will serve as a guide to enable the teacher to successfully manage different types of situations resulting from diversity.
  • Promote intercultural education and training of students in a multicultural classroom.
  • Increase cultural pluralism in education.
  • Understand the value of different identities.
  • Develop positive expectations for each participant’s learning and self- improvement opportunities.
  • Create a climatein the classroom with positivecharacteristics such as positivecommunication, collaboration, and meaningful interaction.
  • Develop empathy and acceptance among trainers and trainees.
  • Learn how to use experiential activities and ICT for the creative use of existing educational material relative to refugees.
  • Get familiar with original interpretative cultural heritage techniques and creativity practices.

Course Language

  • English
  • Note: Participants must have at least a CEFR level B2 knowledge of English in order to be able to participate actively.

Target Groups

  • Primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, members of organizations supporting refugees, volunteers, and citizens who are interested in the training of socially sensitive groups.

Methods & Tools

  • Team building, role playing, project method, and study visits.

Study Visits

  • During the course, we also organize study visits to local schools. We discuss with participants their needs and we organize study visits to cover these needs. We usually organize study visits to: 

    • Early education – Primary education – Secondary education – Adult education local schools.
    • Special needs education schools.
    • Museums.

In course fee includes

    • Coffee Breaks that include traditional products.
    • Guided tour of the Historical Center of the town.
    • Dinner in a traditional restaurant in the town.
    • Europass Mobility.
    • A small gift with traditional Cretan products.
    • Certificate of Attendance, for participants who attend at least 80% of the course.

Heraklion

  • 1 week
  • For more information, click to download pdf file.
Without Borders (PDF)

A/A LOCATION DATE DURATION COST CONFIRMED ENROLMENT
HERAKLION09 Mar 20261 week560 €ConfirmedPreRegister
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