Intercultural Learning
Intercultural learning is the process that leads to the development of intercultural competences.
Here we propose a series of links that detail what is meant by intercultural learning, what characterizes it and how to encourage it.
Guide:
- Intercultural learning. (PDF file) NILE. A guide for teachers that arises within the European project cross-learning and in which it proposes a set of guidelines to follow to achieve an intercultural approach at European level. It provides interesting definitions of basic concepts to keep in mind when we speak of multiculturalism as it is, for example, the definition of culture as "system of beliefs and shared knowledge of people and includes (so unconscious) expectations about thoughts, feelings and actions. " To illustrate this idea is provided image of the concept of culture icerberg.
To learn more about the concept of culture, multiculturalism and how to learn:
- Intercultural learning. A document explaining how it has changed the concept of culture teaching in the language classroom. We've gone from thinking that learning culture meant to read literary texts to realize that culture covers many more aspects of our belief systems and values, our way of seeing the world the way we talk, how gesturing, and so on.
- Intercultural learning: New challenges, new proposals. (PDF) Colectivo Amani. In this document we explain what culture is and how dependent the concept from which we contemplate the people in one way or another.
- Intercultural learning styles. Helena Jiménez Martín. A study on learning strategies applied by the Spanish students of various nationalities. The study results are provided in graphical format which favors us an immediate idea of them. You can help us get a rough idea of how students learn from other countries we have in our classrooms.
From as promoting intercultural learning through literature:
- Intercultural learning through literature. Isabella Leibrandt. An article where the author speaks of the importance of teaching from an intercultural perspective in literature. This is how she explains the reasons to use literature to improve intercultural competence: "In the process of learning intercultural literary texts also acquire a special value, wanting to irritate, arouse certain expectations confirm or cancel out, leaving many things without clarifying and, above all, calling into question your own perceptions and current conventions. "The value of literature helps us to provoke discussion, reflection and change our ideas.
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