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SECTION:
Intercultural Education
Chair of the section/Suggestions, Abstracts, Contributions to:
Email: Mikael Luciak / Susanne Binder (Vienna)
ABSTRACT:
Starting Point
Throughout the world educational institutions are especially considered as the main places to go for the mediation of intercultural aspects. Their importance has increased in recent years as a result of increased migration, internationalism and globalization along with the accompanying growth of ethnic and cultural diversity in the individual countries. The change of paradigm from a "pedagogy for foreigners," shaped by the demands of assimilation, to integrative learning processes, which concern members of the majorities just as much as the members of ethnic minorities, is predicated on the readiness of all involved for the adoption and reflection of intercultural subject matter.
In this section with the focus "Intercultural Education," international contributions can be submitted on theories, methods and practices of intercultural learning, on educational policy initiatives and school models, on new findings of comparative culture and migration research as well as empirical surveys, which deal with the importance of ethnic and linguistic diversity in the field of education. First and foremost the contributions should focus on the pre- and elementary schools, on institutions of higher learning as well as on adult education programs.
Aims:
The exchange of information between participants from different countries offers the opportunity of gaining new information, to reflect on the situation in one's own country, to strengthen research in comparative culture as well as to initiate networking for future cooperative research. To achieve these aims, we are striving, on the one hand, for the interdisciplinary exchange among scholars from the fields of Education, Ethnology, Linguistics, Sociology or Psychology and, on the other hand, we wish to make possible the transfer of information between scholarship and practice by professionals active in the field of education (teachers, instructors, administrators, etc).
Implementation:
For this section, presentations as well as proposals for chairing Workshops can be submitted. We desire talks on empirical studies (for example, comparative culture investigations on success in school of ethnic groups), descriptive studies (for example, school models and experiments, intercultural projects) and philosophical-theoretical treatises (for example, the genesis of intercultural education, effects of communist or liberal educational policy on the field of education) In the framework of the Workshops, for example, exercises on intercultural learning can be presented or future cooperative research projects worked out.
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