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 approachto 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 educatorsto develop 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 traineeswill have developa 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, to have the ability to review and adjust previousviews and attitudes. At the practical level,that is, at the classroom level, the intercultural approach throughinterpretive techniques in this particular seminar will serve as a guide to enable the teacher to successfully manage different types of situationsresulting 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, 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.