Civic Education and Intercultural Issues in Switzerland: Psychosocial Dimensions of an Education to "Otherness".

Autor/in	Muller Mirza, Nathalie
Titel	Civic Education and Intercultural Issues in Switzerland: Psychosocial Dimensions of an Education to "Otherness".
Quelle	In: Journal of social science education, 10 (2011) 4, S. 31-40Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1439-6246; 1618-5293; 1628-5293
DOI	10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v10-i4-1183
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Kulturelle Identität; Grundschule; Sekundarschule; Lehrer-Schüler-Interaktion; Interkulturelle Bildung; Lernen; Politische Bildung; Sprachenvielfalt; Anderssein; Schweiz
Abstract	In contemporary democratic societies that deal with cultural and linguistic diversity, education faces new challenges such as how to promote a shared knowledge and competence framework about "citizenship," how to prepare the young generation to enter a complex world, and how to help immigrant students to integrate into the school system. Some of the European recommendations focus on the importance of promoting "intercultural education". However, so far little is known about concrete practices and their outcomes. This paper aims at documenting and providing elements of reflections about the difficulties and contradictions faced by both teachers and students involved in pedagogical intercultural activities in Switzerland. From the results of a qualitative research based on a sociocultural perspective, identity and institutional issues of addressing "otherness" in school are discussed. It stresses the importance of a frame in order to allow elaboration and transformation of personal and emotional experiences into thinking and reflexive processes (Original übernommen).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2012/4