SoIPE International Perspectives on Education

Faculty of Education
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Košatková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. et Mgr. Markéta Košatková, Ph.D.
Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Dana Jakubjanská, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Social Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable of Seminar Groups
SoIPE/01: Wed 13:00–14:50 učebna 78, M. Košatková
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The purpose of this course is to examine the field of intercultural education and training, with a specific focus on the practical applications of doing this work. This course is applicable to persons teaching in domestic, multicultural settings as well as international education programs. The course moves from theory to practice and from the personal to the applied. Guest speakers who work as intercultural trainers and teacher educators will provide insight into their approaches to this type of work. A major component of this course is to deeply and critically analyze the way that intercultural and ‘diversity’ work is conceptualized and carried out. Students will be asked to critique dominant approaches and carefully consider how we “do diversity” and whether or not current practice is achieving stated or expected outcomes. Reflection on personal identities and intersections with intercultural work will also be explored. The types of questions we will be exploring in this course include: • What are the connections among the concepts intercultural education, training, teaching, and facilitating? • What do intercultural trainers do? What are the most common types of intercultural training? • What are the different ways that ‘culture’ is defined? • What is the difference, if any, between management and leadership? • What does being a good leader mean in education?
Learning outcomes
The students will be able to: 1) critically evaluate selected international journals
Syllabus
  • The teacher of this course will thematically connect the lectures of the foreign guests planned for the corresponding semester (e.g. trends in primary education abroad). He/She should help the students to transfer newly acquired knowledge about foreign educational trends to the Czech context and the prior knowledge, but mainly to teach them how to use the information for innovation in education in the Czech Republic. The course would consist of 4-6 guest lectures of foreign people arriving at the Faculty of Education during the given semester and workshops led by a Faculty academician.
Literature
  • • Assessing intercultural sensitivity: an empirical analysis of the Hammer and Bennett Intercultural Development Inventory (R. Michael Paigea, Melody Jacobs-Cassutob, Yelena A. Yershovaa, Joan DeJaeghere)
  • Social justice and intercultural education: an open ended dialogue. Edited by Ghazala Bhatti. Stoke on Trent: Trentham books, 2007, xv, 213. ISBN 9781858564036. info
  • Intercultural education and literacyan ethnographic study of indigenous knowledge and learning in the Peruvian Amazon. Edited by Sheila Aikman. Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1999, vii, 231 p. ISBN 9027218005. info
Teaching methods
discussion
Assessment methods
Reflection (2-3 pages) into the homework vaults. Attendance Policy: Students are encouraged to come to class, but are left with the responsibility of managing their own attendance. You should visit at least two lectures with international speakers
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 1 hours per week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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