Intercultural dialogue in portuguese schools, we need it!

Authors

  • Maria Leonor Côrte-Real Departamento de Educação, Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro/Portugal)
  • Maria Helena Araújo e Sá Centro de Investigação Didática e Tecnologia na Formação de Formadores, Departamento de Educação, Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro/Portugal)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34626/esc.vi41.296

Keywords:

intercultural dialogue, intercultural competence, European school clubs

Abstract

The current article focuses the activities developed by the European Club of the Secondary
School of São Pedro do Sul, more objectively, in the Project «Who are we?» carried out in the
2010/2011 school year. This articles aims to analyze how intercultural dialogue is promoted among
students of the third year of Middle School through this project. We start by describing how the project was carried out and the ways in which it tried to bring students into direct contact with other realities. Furthermore, we will present the way the project helped to promote the valuation of the acknowledgement of the Other and of their own culture and identity (as well as of the others) as well as it promoted awareness of the relevance of studying foreign languages. Since this is a fairly circumscribed and exploratory study, it is not possible to make generalizations. However, the analysis of the results of the activities seems to point out that students have developed a greater reflection and knowledge about themselves and about the Other. These are essential values young people growth in a Europe which requires rebuilding on the basis of shared values, collectively assumed and to which the school can and should contribute.

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Published

2014-04-01

How to Cite

Côrte-Real, M. L., & Sá, M. H. A. e. (2014). Intercultural dialogue in portuguese schools, we need it!. Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, (41), 149–170. https://doi.org/10.34626/esc.vi41.296

Issue

No. 41 (2014): Thinking education in the XXI century: contributions

Section

DIÁLOGOS SOBRE O VIVIDO

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