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INTERCULTURAL DIVERSITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY AT UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA
The current article draws upon the idea that the study of a language must in all cases be intimately entwined in the study of the particular culture to which said language is affiliated. For this, we must take into account the fact that each language reflects a personal worldview, one which cannot occur in the absence of a good knowledge of our students, especially when it comes to learning a foreign language. The present study pretends to analyze the first-grade students’ perceptions of Faculty of Teacher Training from the University of Valencia about intercultural diversity, understood in a broad sense, as a linguistic, religious, ethnic, gender diversity, etc. The reasons of the importance of this research lie on the one hand, in the existence in the Teaching Guides of different competences in relation with the interculturality, and on the other hand, in the study of future teachers’ needs which will use the intercultural diversity in our pluralistic classrooms.
Release: 2017/3 Pages: 44-49 JEL classification: I23, Z13, I21
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Keywords: interculturality, higher education, competences, diversity, pluralistic classrooms
Section: SOCIAL CONTEXT OF THE ECONOMY, LABOR MARKET AND HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Contacts:
Anna M. Devís-Arbona, Dr.
Faculty of Teacher Training,
University of Valencia
Av. dels Tarongers, 4, 46022 Valencia
e-mail: Anna.Devis@uv.es
Silvia-Maria Chireac, Dr.
Faculty of Teacher Training,
University of Valencia
Av. dels Tarongers, 4, 46022 Valencia
e-mail: Silvia.Chireac@uv.es
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