1) To acquire knowledge and understanding of cultural diversity and social inclusion in the area of education, focusing on schools and the classroom.
2) To acquire knowledge and understanding of the main challenges related with teaching in multicultural classrooms, such as dealing with controversial issues.
3) To acquire an understanding of how academic literature can help to conceptualize and understand cultural diversity and social inclusion in education.
4) To gain skills to apply the course knowledge into a practical knowledge related to interventions in multicultural classrooms
5) To become reflexive of your own normative position and values in relation to cultural diversity.
6) To gain skills to apply the course knowledge into individual scientific writing;
Relation course goals and exams
In the individual paper students will be examined with respect to their knowledge and understanding of the theoretical knowledge that is required in the course (course goals 1 to 5) as well as to how they are able to put these insights into scientific writing (course goal 6). In the group assignments students will be examined with respect to how they are able to apply the scientific knowledge of the course (goal 1 to 3) into a practice based assignment in a collaborative context (course goal 4).
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Promoting social inclusion in culturally diverse educational settings is a goal shared by many schools and universities, but actually achieving this goal in the day-to-day classroom is often hard to do. The goal of this teaching module is to highlight a few of the key challenges and concerns in promoting social inclusion in cultural diverse classrooms and schools and illustrate ways to incorporate an understanding of cultural diversity in the classroom and beyond. Within this general theme, we address themes such as, intercultural communication, civic education, polarization, radicalization, epistemic cultures, punitive approaches and student marginalization as interrelated, but separate subthemes. Next, it teaches and allows students to gain practice with designing and evaluating methodologies and interventions to analyze and optimize inter-cultural learning situations, conflict and diversity management, school identity issues etc. We study and analyze scientific literature addressing different subthemes and based on the literature we will propose practical recommendations for schools and teachers. We will focus on mainly international literature and will translate these to the Dutch context. A key theme in the course is combination between literature and practice. We will work with realistic case studies based on everyday experiences of teachers. An important goal of this course is to become aware of your own epistemological and normative position as a researcher and professional in the field of education. In this course you learn to think and act as an academic professional. You will learn to take position in guided discussion groups, and write a position paper. Furthermore, you will gain practical experience with applying scientific knowledge in designing an intervention in an intercultural setting.
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