4th European Seminar / Think-Tank: „Schools as intercultural communities: Towards indicators for successful intercultural education “ European Wergeland Centre, Oslo (Norway), 4 – 7 October 2011
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CONTEXT The Think-Tank is organised within the existing partnership between the Pestalozzi Programme and the European Wergeland Centre (EWC) together with the Intercultural Cities Programme of the Council of Europe and the European Union and the Project Intercultural Education and Exchanges of the Council of Europe. The three-day session shall discuss and critically review existing practice and work results regarding whole-school policies and action for intercultural education as well as the development of the attitudes, skills and knowledge necessary for mutual understanding in diversity as a core element of the mainstream curriculum. The participants shall then focus on the elaboration of a list of indicators for successful intercultural education covering the aspects of teaching and learning of intercultural competence across the curriculum as well as appropriate whole-school policies. A compendium of successful initiatives as well as guidelines based on reports by participants and discussions will be elaborated following the think tank. TARGET GROUP School heads and teachers from 13 cities of the 21 cities members of the Intercultural Cities Network, Nottingham (United Kingdom) and Stockholm (Sweden). HOW TO PATICIPATE Interested education professionals can apply directly to participate in this activity. [More] ____________________________________________________________ NEWS KEY DOCUMENTS Description of the Think-Tank / Programme Final report PICTURES FURTHER DOCUMENTS Documents for further reading

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