Intercultural Education and Culture of peace

1 Week Course in Vélez-Málaga, Spain.

Erasmus+ Intercultural Education Course: Teaching students from the two sides of the Mediterranean sea.

Course Description:

With thousands of immigrant and refugee families from diverse backgrounds in recent decades, European society, and especially schools, face the challenge of addressing, educating, and integrating thousands of people from seemingly different realities, cultures, ideas, and values.

Understanding the history of the other peoples of the Mediterranean, analyzing each of these ideas and concepts, and differentiating ethnicities, languages, nations, peoples, religions, and traditions, will help us to develop our vision of the educational challenge and thus perform our teaching task optimally.

Methods: Digital explanation, Storytelling, Project-Based Learning, and Socratic dialogue.

Activities: Local excursion included.

Concepts:

• The Mediterranean world.
• The Arabs and the Arab world.
• The two sides of Mediterranean cultures.
• Classrooms for peace.

Objectives:

• Know the basic characteristics of Mediterranean civilizations.
• Differentiate between ethnicities, religions, languages, peoples, and cultures.
• Combat stereotypes, and false ideas.
• Create inclusive classrooms based on the culture of dialogue and peace.