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 \u2013 Training Course on Civic Cross-Cultural Competencies for Elementary School Teachers 16 \u2013 21 October 2011 Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the five-day course, learning and teaching material centred on critical-intercultural learning, and flight and migration will be introduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n