Intercultural understanding means having knowledge, respect, and empathy towards people from different cultures. It involves recognizing and appreciating the differences and similarities between cultures, and valuing diversity. It helps in building positive relationships and reducing conflicts between individuals or groups from different cultures.
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I have a master's degree in multicultural & international education and work beyond the classroom — I started the Bridge Program (
for intercultural understanding in school) and last year ETN (English Teachers Norway), where our vision is to increase interest in English as a subject at school and university.
Though all are significant in learning to live together, three dispositions — expressing empathy, demonstrating respect and taking responsibility — have been identified as critical to the development of
Intercultural Understanding in the Australian Curriculum.
This trailer introduces video materials from the resource «Take Mali» which can be used to support the development
of intercultural understanding at KS2 and KS3 through French, Geography and Global Citizenship.
This mission dovetails with IB's longstanding mission to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring life - long learners who help create a better and more peaceful world
through intercultural understanding and respect.
In the F — 6/7 Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences, students develop
intercultural understanding as they learn how to build discipline - specific knowledge about history, geography, civics and citizenship, and economics and business, as they pose questions, research, analyse, evaluate and communicate information, concepts and ideas.
Students develop and act
with intercultural understanding in making artworks that explore their own cultural identities and those of others, interpreting and comparing their experiences and worlds, and seeking to represent increasingly complex relationships.
Others come with specific academic or professional interests: using the arts as therapy for Alzheimer's patients, arts integration, the design of after - school arts programs, the use of the arts with incarcerated populations, or
promoting intercultural understanding through the arts.
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is a public not - for - profit contemporary art museum which collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits twenty - first century art from Africa and its Diaspora; hosts international exhibitions; develops supporting educational and enrichment programmes;
encourages intercultural understanding; and guarantees access for all.
My research and teaching focus on how digital technologies can be used across the globe to create opportunities for individuals and to
increase intercultural understanding between individuals.
In this way, students
use intercultural understanding to comprehend and create a range of texts that present diverse cultural perspectives, and to empathise with a variety of people and characters in various cultural settings.
Results from a three - year study
on intercultural understanding in Australian primary and secondary schools has revealed unique insights into young people's thoughts on racism.
Transmitting heritage values to young people
favors intercultural understanding, respect for cultural diversity and helps create an environment propitious to a culture of peace — principles which are central to the United Nation's mission.
There is an obvious connection between global understanding and
intercultural understanding described in the Australian Curriculum (ACARA, 2015) as «an essential part of living with others in the diverse world of the twenty - first century.
In the Australian Curriculum: The Arts,
intercultural understanding enables students to explore the influence and impact of cultural identities and traditions on the practices and thinking of artists and audiences.
Intercultural understanding involves students learning about and engaging with diverse cultures in ways that recognise commonalities and differences, create connections with others and cultivate mutual respect.
Students also develop
intercultural understanding from their study of the English language and the ways it has been influenced by different cultural groups, languages, speakers and writers.
Intercultural understanding focuses primarily on the development of skills, behaviours and dispositions as well as drawing on students» growing knowledge, understanding and critical awareness of their own and others» cultural perspectives and practices derived from learning area content.
They usually work with foreign families and are responsible for
providing intercultural understanding so that the family that they are working for is provided with new cultural exposure.
COMMUNITY PARTNER Established in 1987, American Indian Artists Inc. (AMERINDA) is a community - based multi-arts organization that works to empower Native Americans and
foster intercultural understanding of Native culture.
To the extent that they advocate the need
for intercultural understanding, they are to be commended — as long as the task is done voluntarily, without state or federal assistance.
But despite the risks attached with programs such as Out of Eden Learn, I believe it is indefensible to do nothing to
promote intercultural understanding and exchange, particularly at this moment in our human history.
In the Australian Curriculum: Geography, students
develop intercultural understanding as they learn about the diversity of the world's places, peoples, cultures and environments.
It explains how the IB aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world
through intercultural understanding and respect.
The project, Doing Diversity:
Intercultural Understanding in Primary and Secondary Schools, examined the issue of responsibility for racism in focus groups with Year 7 - 10 high school students.
Played by the winsome Hugh Bonneville and accompanied by his stalwart wife Edwina (Gillian Anderson, yes that Gillian Anderson) and educated daughter Pamela (Lily Travers), the Mountbattens were known for
their intercultural understanding, making them deftly suited for the arduous task at hand.
The Australian Curriculum includes a focus on seven general capabilities: Literacy, Numeracy, Information and communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Ethical understanding, Personal and social capability and
Intercultural understanding.
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Intercultural understanding», Australian Curriculum 8.1.
These skills and attributes — sometimes referred to as general capabilities, cross-curricular skills or twenty - first century skills — include literacy and numeracy, problem solving, oral communication, critical and creative thinking, the ability to work in teams, self - management, and
intercultural understanding.
Youth can act as a bridge between cultures and serve as key agents in promoting peace and
intercultural understanding.
Third, because general capabilities such as critical thinking, self - management and
intercultural understanding develop throughout the years of school, assessment processes must be capable of monitoring students» long - term development.
It draws upon learning from other transformative education processes including human rights education, education for sustainable development, education for inter-national /
intercultural understanding, and education for peace.
The group planned and coordinated the trip since August 2012, under the guidance of faculty advisor Assistant Professor Sarah Dryden - Peterson, and challenged their skills in collaboration, teamwork, research, and
intercultural understanding.
Arguments about the national curriculum, to some, has too much focus on these «general capabilities», which include skills like critical and creative thinking, ethical behaviours, personal and social skills and
intercultural understanding.
Intercultural understanding is a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum.