Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding

Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding is a comprehensive resource for educators in Primary and Early Years classrooms. It provides teachers with a comprehensive framework for Developing Intercultural Understanding and practical and creative strategies, activities and resources.

Zusatztext 91242184 Informationen zum Autor Debra Rader is a former primary school headteacher with over 30 years' experience teaching and working with children and families from multicultural and multilingual backgrounds. She is an international educational consultant and develops programmes and workshops linked to intercultural understanding. Klappentext Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding is a comprehensive resource for educators in primary and early years classrooms. It provides teachers with a complete framework for developing intercultural understanding among pupils and includes practical and creative strategies and activities to stimulate discussion, awareness and comprehension of intercultural issues and ideas.Drawing on the most current research and work in the field of intercultural competence and existing models of intercultural understanding, this book explores topics such as:understanding culture and languagethe importance of personal and cultural identityengaging with differencecultivating positive attitudes and beliefsembedding awareness of local and global issues in studentsdesigning a classroom with intercultural understanding in mind.With detailed ready-to-use, enquiry-based lesson plans, which incorporate children's literature, talking points and media resources, this book encourages the practitioner to consider intercultural understanding as another lens through which to view the curriculum when creating and choosing learning materials and activities. Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding sets out to help the reader engage young hearts and minds with global and local concepts in a way that is easily integrated into the life of all primary schools - from New York to New Delhi, from Birmingham to Bangkok. Zusammenfassung Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding is a comprehensive resource for educators in Primary and Early Years classrooms. It provides teachers with a comprehensive framework for Developing Intercultural Understanding and practical and creative strategies, activities and resources. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Using This Book Part 1: Compelling Pedagogy for Our Times Chapter 1. What is Intercultural Understanding? Chapter 2. Why is Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding Imperative? Chapter 3. Starting With Ourselves: Reflection and Self-knowledge Part 2: Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding Chapter 4. Exploring Culture and Language Tokyo Friends/Tokyo no Tomodachi by Betty Reynolds Sharing Cultural Artefacts: Create a Gallery Space Wish: Wishing Traditions Around the World by Roseanne Thong Chapter 5. Understanding and Valuing Personal and Cultural Identity The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi Personal and Cultural Identity Map Project: My Map Book by Sara Fanelli Dancing Home by Alma Flor Ada and Gabriel M Zubizarreta Chapter 6. Cultivating Transformative Beliefs, Values and Attitudes The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper What Does It Mean to be Global? by Rana DiOrio Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson Chapter 7. Engaging With Difference Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman One Green Apple by Eve Bunting The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson Chapter 8. Developing Essential Intercultural, Interpersonal and Life Skills When Sophie's Feelings Are Really, Really Hurt by Molly Bang Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco Marianthe's Story: Painted Words and Spoken Memories by Aliki Chapter 9. Embedding Local and Global Issues For Every Child : The rights of the child in words and pictures UNICEF text adapted by Caroline Castle One Well: The Story of Water on Earth by Rochelle Strauss Peace Begins With You by Katherine Scholes Part 3: Putting it into Practice: Modeling, Living, and Learning Intentionally Chapter 10. Designin...

"In Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding, Debra Rader has produced a clearly-structured, carefully researched volume which informs and encourages its readers to integrate intercultural understanding into their teaching, and also challenges them to reflect on issues relating to their own cultures, beliefs, values and attitudes. This new title promises to be a must-read for anyone with a concern for supporting the young adults of tomorrow in developing the skills and attributes that will be essential if they are to live peacefully with others in our increasingly complex world." - Mary Hayden, Professor of International Education, University of Bath, UK "This is a remarkable book, perhaps even a courageous one. Debra Rader's appeal to teachers blends theory and practice into a narrative that is passionate and inspiring, urgent and compelling, with a mine of resources and ideas for lessons and activities. It will be a seminal text on how to address the most important educational challenge of our era." - Terry Haywood, Trustee, Alliance for International Education and International Schools Consultant "Debra Rader's book is a deep dive into what intercultural understanding is, why it is vital to our global wellbeing, and how to foster it in children. Approachable, insightful, practical, and hopeful, it is a must-have resource for educators committed to making the world a better place, one child at a time." - Rana DiOrio, author of the award-winning What Does It Mean To Be . . .?®children's picture book series "Digitalisation has connected people, countries and continents, bringing together a majority of the world's population in ways that vastly increases our individual and collective potential. But the same forces have also made the world more volatile, more complex and more uncertain. More than ever, schools are called to help students see the world through different eyes, appreciate different cultures and divergent thinking, and to build a shared understanding among groups with diverse experiences and interests, thus increasing our radius of trust to strangers and institutions. This is easy to say, but really hard to accomplish in a classroom. This book provides a framework for how to do this, and not only that, it also illustrates in insightful and practical ways what it might look like when intercultural understanding is lived in our daily lives." - Andreas Schleicher, Director OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General "This book is an excellent resource for the multicultural and multilingual children I teach. The literature recommendations are diverse, relevant to my students' lives, and consistently provide opportunities for meaningful conversations. The lesson plans have been transformative for all the students in my class, and have deepened their appreciation of and thirst to learn more about all cultures and languages. Through this learning, my entire class raised their awareness of how we can honor our differences, engage with one another respectfully, and each help make the world a better place." - Grace Friedman, White Center Heights Elementary School, Seattle, WA, USA "Teaching and Learning for Intercultural Understanding is a critical exploration on how, as educators, we can intentionally build the values and skills children need to engage positively in an ever-increasing intercultural world. The rich array of quality children's literature featured, and the thoughtful and well-developed lesson plans that Ms. Rader has created to support the development of these essential skills offer valuable practical application for the classroom. Teachers will love them!" - Julia Alden, International School Leader and Educator "With this thoughtful book, Debra Rader has given primary schools the gift of the 'what', 'why' and 'how' of intercultural understanding…