Preliminary communication
Interculturalism in science
Ines Blažević
orcid.org/0000-0001-6735-2922
; Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency, Split, Croatia
Abstract
The contemporary globalization processes in a multicultural environment, based on the ideas of pluralism and interculturalism, have a direct implication on the picture of the school as well as new requirements for school. In response to contemporary social demands of schools offer intercultural education, as a contemporary form of education for living in a democracy and cultural pluralism. Following the idea of interculturalism Program has been implemented cross-curricular and interdisciplinary content of civic education and education for primary and secondary schools in order to prepare an informed, active and responsible citizen who will be able for intercultural action: knowledge, attitudes and skills of communication and interaction at all levels of social multicultural community. Implementation of the Programme can contribute to all subjects, especially the teaching content in the science when it comes to implementation in classrooms with special emphasis on the way of realization of intercultural content as interculturalism imply much more than the existence of awareness about diversity. Results of the empirical part of the research conducted among teachers/peers classroom teaching of Split-Dalmatia and Dubrovnik-Neretva County will be showing the level of intercultural competence of today’s teachers and methods of implementation of intercultural education, especially in the teaching of science. Research results can be a stimulus for reflection when creating programs of teacher education, both initial and life-long, in order to successfully promote intercultural values.
Keywords
civic education; intercultural competence of teachers; multiculturalism; teaching content and the nature of society; intercultural education
Hrčak ID:
160164
URI
Publication date:
11.5.2016.
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