ERIC Number: ED266889
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Publication Date: 1985-Jun-3
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Querying the Intercultural Approach. Seminar Held in Brussels, Belgium, September 21-22, 1984. The CDCC's Project No.7: "The Education and Cultural Development of Migrants."
Leurin, Marcel
This report summarizes comments of 10 researchers on topics relevant to intercultural education in Western Europe. The two-day seminar was organized by the French Commission for Culture in Brussels, the General Confederation of Teachers, and the Socio-Cultural Centre for Migrants in Brussels to bring research insights to Belgian educators involved on a daily level with high concentrations of foreign pupils. Reasons were given for slow development of intercultural education in Belgium, including opposition to learner-centered instruction, fear of lowered standards, and prejudice toward foreign teachers. Dangers of paternalism and segregation in poorly designed intercultural education were discussed. Migrant education efforts of the Council of Europe's Council for Cultural Cooperation were reviewed. Cultural characteristics of migrant children were explored with an emphasis placed on respecting differences in codes which regulate daily behavior. Psychoanalytic theories concerning interculturalism based on the work of Jacques Lacan were explained and the importance of the social link and recognition of effort were stressed. The role of language in cultural distinction and assimilation and the importance of allowing members of all groups to build their own family and community sagas were explained. Questions and statements by seminar participants and audience during a round-table discussion are recorded. (LFL)
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Collected Works - Proceedings
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France).
Identifiers - Location: Belgium
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