Rader Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding

Engaging Young Hearts and Minds
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-59524-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten

Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding is a comprehensive resource for educators in primary and early years classrooms. It provides teachers with a complete framework for developing intercultural understanding among pupils and includes practical and creative strategies and activities to stimulate discussion, awareness and comprehension of intercultural issues and ideas.
Drawing on the most current research and work in the field of intercultural competence and existing models of intercultural understanding, this book explores topics such as:

understanding culture and language
the importance of personal and cultural identity
engaging with difference
cultivating positive attitudes and beliefs
embedding awareness of local and global issues in students
designing a classroom with intercultural understanding in mind.

With detailed ready-to-use, enquiry-based lesson plans, which incorporate children's literature, talking points and media resources, this book encourages the practitioner to consider intercultural understanding as another lens through which to view the curriculum when creating and choosing learning materials and activities. Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding sets out to help the reader engage young hearts and minds with global and local concepts in a way that is easily integrated into the life of all primary schools –from New York to New Delhi,from Birmingham to Bangkok.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rader, Debra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Using This Book

PART ONE – Compelling Pedagogy for Our Times

Chapter 1 What is Intercultural Understanding?
Chapter 2 Why is Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding Imperative?
Chapter 3 Starting With Ourselves: Reflection and Self-knowledge

PART TWO – Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding

Chapter 4 Exploring Culture and Language
Tokyo Friends/Tokyo no Tomodachi by Betty Reynolds
Sharing Cultural Artefacts: Create a Gallery Space
Wish: Wishing Traditions Around the World by Roseanne Thong

Chapter 5 Understanding and Valuing Personal and Cultural Identity
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Personal and Cultural Identity Map Project: My Map Book by Sara Fanelli
Dancing Home by Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M Zubizarreta

Chapter 6 Cultivating Transformative Beliefs, Values and Attitudes
The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper
What Does It Mean to be Global? by Rana DiOrio
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson

Chapter 7 Engaging With Difference
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
One Green Apple by Eve Bunting
The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson

Chapter 8 Developing Essential Intercultural, Interpersonal and Life Skills
When Sophie’s Feelings Are Really, Really Hurt by Molly Bang
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco
Marianthe’s Story: Painted Words and Spoken Memories by Aliki

Chapter 9 Embedding Local and Global Issues
For Every Child: The rights of the child in words and pictures UNICEF
text adapted by Caroline Castle
One Well: The Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss
Peace Begins With You by Katherine Scholes
PART THREE – Putting it into Practice: Modeling, Living, and Learning Intentionally
Chapter 10 Designing Learning and Living Spaces with Intercultural Understanding in Mind
Chapter 11 Applying Our Knowledge, Using Our Skills and Living Our Values
Chapter 12 Helping to Create a Better World

Appendices

Appendix A Children’s Literature for Developing Intercultural Understanding
Appendix B Multimedia Resources
Appendix C Web-based Resources
Appendix D Resources for Educators and Parents
Appendix E Partnering With Parents
Appendix F Connecting with the Community
Appendix G Organisations that Promote Intercultural Understanding
Appendix H Templates for Lesson Plans

Über Autor(innen)

Debra Rader is a former primary school headteacher with over30 years’ experience teaching and working with children and families from multicultural and multilingual backgrounds. She is an international educational consultant and develops programmes and workshops linked to intercultural understanding.