Multicultural Education (KPD/E-MCE)

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6 credits
Lecturers: Mgr. Bc. Martina Matějíček Rozsypalová, Ph.D., doc. PaedDr. Miriam Prokešová, Ph.D.
Lessons (Lectures + Exercises + Seminars): 0 + 0 + 2 [hours/week]
Semester: winter/summer
Credit test preceding examination: None
Examination method: comparative essay
Status of the course in the degree programme: The course is provided by the Department of Education and Adult Education for Erasmus students, especially for those studying teacher education programmes.

Annotation:

Contact among cultures has always been a part of each culture's existence and has always belonged to the reality of people's everyday lives. Multiculturalism as a political concept has also brought consequences to the field of education. The area of multicultural education has been transformed into intercultural and transcultural education; it appears in various activities performed during teaching. In this course, students will understand terminology related to multicultural education; they will reflect their own experience of the activities in which they participate; and thus they will build up their transcultural consciousness and become more interculturally literate.

Requirements:

80% attendance in the course is required. Students prepare their own short activities (max. 10 minutes) that they find supportive for the development of intercultural literacy – they have to define the objectives of the activity in cognitive, affective and psychomotoric terms and to implement the activity with a group of their co-students. Also they write a description of how multicultural education is provided in their home countries (3-5 pages).

Aims and objectives:

Students gain:

Knowledge of basic terms related to the topic.
Knowledge of relations between cultures.
The ability to create and effectively organize activities focused on intercultural literacy.
The ability to act properly in direct contact with people from abroad.
The competency to communicate and cooperate with the others in a global environment.

Topics of workshops:

Multiculturalism as a political and educational concept.
Multicultural - intercultural - transcultural education (basic terms - identity, acculturation, assimilation, integration).
Concept of global culture.
Dialogue between religions.
The idea of intercultural literacy.
Intercultural communication and its features.
The concept of multicultural education in Czech curricular documents.
Minorities in the Czech Republic and in the region of Ostrava.
Romany people (Gypsies) and specifics of their life in the Czech Republic.
The education of Romany people in the Czech educational environment.
Practical activities to support multicultural consciousness.
Concepts of multicultural education in various countries.

Literature:

VanDRIEL, B. (ed.) Intercultural Education: Formerly European Journal of Intercultural Studies. Amsterdam : Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2006.
LECLERCQ, J.-M. Facets of Interculturality in Education. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2003. ISBN 92-871-5088-5.
BANKS, J. A.; BANKS McGEE, Ch. A. (eds.) Handbook of Research on Multicultural Education (2. vyd.). San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2004. ISBN 0-7879-5915-4.
SINGELIS, T. M. (ed.) Teaching about Culture, Ethnicity and Diversity : Exercises and Planned Activities. Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-7619-0695-9.
MISTRÍK, E.; HAAPANEN, S.; HEIKKINEN, H.; JAZUDEK, R.; ONDRUŠKOVÁ, N.; RÄSÄNEN, R. Kultúra a multikultúrna výchova - Culture and Multicultural Education. Bratislava : Iris, 1999. ISBN 80-88778-81-6.
BENNETT, C. I. Comprehensive Multicultural Education : Theory and Practice. Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 1999 (4. vyd.). ISBN 0-205-28324-1.
SEN, A. Identity and Violence : The Illusion of Destiny. London : Penguin Books, 2006. ISBN 978-0-141-02780-7.
FEATHERSTONE, M. (ed.) Global Culture : Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity. London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 1991 (2. vyd.). ISBN 0-80393-822-1.
ROSMAN, A.; RUBEL P.G. The Tapestry of Culture : An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology. New York : McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1995 (5. vyd.) ISBN 0-07-053955-3.