After the international meeting of the Comeius project MIRACLE miracle-comenius.org held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in January 2011 the MIRACLE consortium is pleased to invite elementary school teachers of the EU27 to apply for the in the training course: Comenius LLP – Training Course on Civic Cross-Cultural Competencies for Elementary School Teachers 16 – 21 October 2011 Berlin, Germany
In the five-day course, learning and teaching material centred on critical-intercultural learning, and flight and migration will be introduced.
The long term aim of the training course is to enable pupils with a migration background of realising a more successful school career. Their learning motivation will be increased via two main strategies:
1. The development of teaching and learning material for pupils in which the portrayal of pupils with a migration background is not homogenized or limited to stereotypical images >>> Participants will receive a course manual and DVD entailing detailed versions of the modules from the teacher training course as well as the teaching/learning material.
2. A teacher training course will offer various modules on self-reflection, which will be partly based on the anti-bias approach, and contain a special focus on anti-discriminatory civic education. Anti-bias*, unlike other approaches in the field of intercultural education, does not focus solely on the individual level of discrimination >>> Some of the material will be presented by the participants themselves allowing for active feedback and reflection. In addition, participants will learn about European flight and migration policy as well as about political-intercultural education.
See explanatory file with detailed guidance on the content, the agenda, more information about the application procedure and guidelines on how to apply for a training grant from your National Agency can be found on the MIRACLE website.
The course will be held entirely in English with the participation of teachers from EU27.
The deadline for application is 29th April 2011
The educational material of the course has been developed by:
AGORA civic education, Leibniz University Hannover
CESIE – European Centre of Studies and Initiatives
Artemisszió Foundation
Slovenian Migration Institute. Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences
Malta Regional Development and Dialogue Foundation (MRDDF)
Università della Svizzera italiana, faculty of Communication Sciences
For further information please contact migration@cesie.org.
