The importance of teacher training in intercultural skills
Main Article Content
Vol. 17 No. 1 (2013): La innovación educativa con perspectiva de género. Retos y desafíos para el profesorado, Contribution, pages 339-365
Submitted: Nov 29, 2015
Published: Apr 1, 2013
Abstract
The contexts in which we are living are multicultural, but are we responsible citizens in this society? What do we need to know to live in multicultural contexts? We need Intercultural Skills, which means to have training that leads to the acquisition of skills and intercultural attitudes. Given this, we must ask if teachers are capable of training students in intercultural skills. We have conducted a research aimed at knowing if the teachers consider themselves crossculturally competent. The research is qualitative and uses a questionnaire and an in-depth interview to collect data. We have collected information from 124 teachers. The conclusions indicate that teachers believe themselves to be interculturally competent and think they use techniques to implement intercultural education, but they do not show neither sufficient attitudes nor techniques to develop students’ intercultural skills.
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Article Details
How to Cite
Aguaded Ramírez, E. M., de la Rubia Ruiz, P., & González Castellón, E. (2013). The importance of teacher training in intercultural skills. Profesorado, Revista De Currículum Y Formación Del Profesorado, 17(1), 339–365. Retrieved from https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/profesorado/article/view/19473