Multicultural & Intercultural education

• DAY 1: Introduction

Getting to know each other. Presentation activity where participants will share their experiences related to the course subject and their expectations towards the workshop. Course content and its development during these days.

What to do to integrate and celebrate diversity and differences among students? Understanding human beings: psychological and social foundations of identity creation: culture, socialization, human perception, coexistence, values, power relations.

Take my position as a teacher with the issue. Multicultural and intercultural education: ideology, principles and goals. Coordinates to focus my attitude, decisions and the organization of activities in the classroom.

Design of the path to follow. What, how and when. Drawing the future we want as a guide for planning, acting and taking on commitments.

• DAY 2: Different, not better or worse

What to make and to deal with insults, abuse and discrimination among students? Stereotype, Prejudice and Discrimination. Microagressions. Tolerance and inclusion: belonging in order to be and learn.

How to create a positive, inclusive environment? Techniques for creating care relationships in the classroom and school. Activities to foster social cohesion and love connections among students and educative community.

How to deal with conflicts? Reframing emotions, empathy and mediation. Mindfulness practices to minimize bias against others.

• DAY 3: Be the change you want to see in the world

How to become culturally inclusive educators? Ways to fostering curiosity for other cultures points of view, intercultural perspectives about the same subject and differences in teaching process.

The need to review and redesign the base. Transforming the curriculum: ethnocentrism and inclusion of ethnic minority students’ perspectives and experiences. Working with shared values, planning, cross-curricular issues and specific actions.

How to raise awareness? Boosting curiosity and critical thinking: strategies and activities for the classroom, the education center and the community.

Spread enthusiasm to my colleagues and community.  Managing teams and teaching staff facing cultural diversity and immigration. Strategic and creative actions.

• DAY 4: Uthopia to keep walking

Strategies and Creative paths to feel the differences.  F.O.DA., reality analysis and creative techniques to systematize actions in the short, medium and long term.

Creating changes at different levels: classroom, educational center and community. Examples of different strategies, guidelines, good practices: learning communities, cities, educators, welcome protocols, motivation and management of staff meetings, intercultural mediation, selective, partial and intensive immersion programmes, intercultural dialogue and international projects among others.

Make it real. Problem solving: case analysis. We put into practice all we have shared, solving the real problems that teachers have.

• DAY 5: To do or not to do. It’s the question

With a map is better. Workshop during which the participants will create the “good practice” guidelines with tips related to the creation of inclusive and intercultural education schemes and a plan that they can share and expand with their teams.

What we know. Presentation of the workshop results.

We have the power. Summary, conclusions and commitments.