STEP 3: What have I learnt?
1. Why are special training opportunities for teachers in refugee education so important?
Explanation:
- Learners right of equal opportunities for education and training, independent of origin and cultural background
- Intercultural sensitivity as one of the core competences of the 21st century
- Intercultural competencies enable communication and cooperation between persons from different cultural backgrounds without major porblems
- VET teachers are required to facilitate the integration of young refuge students, so special Training is mandatory
2. Which "core competences" should teachers in refugee education acquire?
Explanation:
- Confidence and ability to teach in a multilingual and culturally diverse classroom
- Empathy with and high expectations for culturally and racially diverse students
- Capacity to foster the socio-emotional development of students who have been traumatized by conflict or by the experience of migration
- Versatility in the notions of inclusion and integration and the capacity to negotiate those goals with other key stakeholders and to translate those into effective curriculum and pedagogical practices
3. What teaching and training activities to promote the development of learners' intercultural competences in VET must be included in training opportunities?
Explanation:
- Active learning scenarios including actual experience of diversity
- Interactions between people belonging to different cultures
- Cooperation between people with diverse cultural backgrounds, in problem setting and problem solving
- Disjunctural experiences, challenging mental schemes, provoking reflection, enhancing transformation and change.