Developing intercultural competences in preservice teacher education for the upper secondary level
Type
conference poster
Date Issued
2016-07-04
Author(s)
Abstract
Recently there has been a growing socio-cultural and ethnic heterogeneity of students in classes of commercial vocational schools in Switzerland. This has had an impact on various aspects of school life, e.g. classroom management, interaction between students and teachers. Currently, however, intercultural competences are not self-evident in the pedagogical professionalism of teachers. In particular in preservice teacher education for higher levels of education (vocational training, after compulsory schooling) the topic is still largely ignored.
The aim of the larger project is to design a learning environment for the promotion of intercultural competences of preservice teachers in the degree program in Business Education at the University of St.Gallen. Hereby the project wants to investigate what the guiding principles are for designing a didactic-methodological learning concept in order to promote intercultural competences in this context.
The poster adresses in particular the different beliefs preservice teachers have about working with students from different cultural and ethnical groups as they influence strongly the outcome and effects of multicultural learning activities.
The aim of the larger project is to design a learning environment for the promotion of intercultural competences of preservice teachers in the degree program in Business Education at the University of St.Gallen. Hereby the project wants to investigate what the guiding principles are for designing a didactic-methodological learning concept in order to promote intercultural competences in this context.
The poster adresses in particular the different beliefs preservice teachers have about working with students from different cultural and ethnical groups as they influence strongly the outcome and effects of multicultural learning activities.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Book title
Abstracts Poster Session
Event Title
EARLI JURE 2016
Event Location
Helsinki
Event Date
04.-08.07.2016
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Division(s)
Eprints ID
249762