Description
Schools bring together students and families from many cultures, and every school has the power to make that diversity a strength. This course shows you how to build a more inclusive school culture through simple changes in everyday routines and deeper, long-term changes in school habits, culture and relationships with the community.
You will work on three key areas: building cultural knowledge, developing empathy and strengthening critical thinking. The first step is becoming aware of how our own culture and ethnocentrism shape the way we see others, and how discrimination can be built into institutions, everyday language, public discourse and the media, often without us noticing. From there, you will learn how to make more inclusive choices in your teaching, materials and school life. You will explore practical strategies and activities that help students value diversity, question stereotypes and analyse media messages critically, as well as ideas to involve families and the wider community. Through reflection, case studies and group work, you will apply each strategy to your own school context.
By the end of the course, you will have a set of practical strategies and a plan to build a more culturally inclusive school, from small daily changes to long-term goals.
COURSE OVERVIEW
- Build a more culturally inclusive classroom and school culture, from daily routines to long-term habits.
- Reflect critically on their own cultural perspective and make more inclusive choices in their teaching.
- Promote empathy, respect and critical thinking about diversity among students.
- Involve families and the wider community in creating an inclusive school.
- Identify discrimination and stereotypes in language, teaching materials, media and school practices.
- Use activities that develop students' cultural knowledge, empathy and critical thinking.
- Apply strategies to analyse media messages and public discourse with students.
- Adapt everyday classroom routines to make them more culturally inclusive.
- Plan short- and long-term actions to build an inclusive school culture.
- Understand the key ideas of multicultural and intercultural education.
- Identify how culture and ethnocentrism influence the way we see others.
- Recognise how institutional discrimination works and how it can appear in schools.
- Explain how language, media and public discourse shape attitudes towards diversity.
NEXT COURSES
Our Pricing
100% funded by the Erasmus+
Services included
- Pre-arrival information.
- Tuition & training materials.
- Admin & organizational costs.
- Documentation support.
- Coffee break.
*Please check our Terms & Conditions for details of the items included in the Coffee Corner.
services
- Accommodation (hotels & self-catering apartments).
- Half-day and one-day trips.
- Cultural activities.
- Airport transfer.
- Local transport.
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