This diploma thesis concerns with the usage of books of English for increasing intercultural competences in pupils at basic schools. The theoretical part briefly outlines main documents which determine the teaching requirements. There are also mentioned contexts between multiculturalism and intercultural competences and why it is important to deal with multicultural education. The practical part concentrates on the research of multicultural specifics and it is divided into two main segments. The first one focuses on the comparison of three kinds of textbooks that are used for teaching English language and the second one is the practical example of multicultural education in English lessons.

Au moment où les échanges interculturels s’intensifient, les expériences de mobilité commencent à un âge de plus en plus jeune, et l’accès à l’Internet permet des rencontres interculturelles sans aucun déplacement géographique, l’enseignement du chinois laisse apparaître une nouvelle attente : le développement des compétences culturelles et interculturelles qui permettent aux apprenants d’avoir une plus grande ouverture envers d’autres cultures et de maintenir une relation non-conflictuelle avec l’Autre. Pourtant, la réalité nous fait voir qu’il existe un décalage entre les objectifs culturels et interculturels des matériaux pédagogiques, des enseignants, des élèves et de leurs parents, et leur mise en place dans l’enseignement, un décalage entre les objectifs théoriques préconisés par les documents officiels et les objectifs dans la pratique, ainsi qu’un décalage entre les compétences culturelles et interculturelles et leur reconnaissance par le système scolaire français.La présente recherche s’inscrit dans une didactique des langues et des cultures ouverte à la pluridisciplinarité et emprunte notamment à l’anthropologie, à la sociologie et à la psychologie. Elle prend comme terrain d’étude la cité scolaire Emile Zola de Rennes et s’appuie sur un corpus mixte d’entretiens, de matériaux pédagogiques et des documents officiels. Considérant comme acteurs sociaux les 5 enseignants, les 20 élèves et les 16 parents, elle a pu montrer l’importance les facteurs non-scolaires dans le développement des compétences culturelles et interculturelles des apprenants dans l’enseignement du chinois face au contexte secondaire français. / In the current context when the cultural exchanges increase, the mobility experiences start at a young age and the use of Internet allows the intercultural encounters without any geographical movement, the Chinese teaching reveals a new expectation : the development of cultural and intercultural competences that enables learners to have a greater openness towards other cultures and maintain a non-conflictual relationship with the other. However, the reality shows us that there is a gap between the cultural and intercultural objectives of teaching materials, teachers, students and parents, and their implementation in teaching, a gap between the theoretical objectives recommended by official documents and the objectives in practice, and also a gap between cultural and intercultural competences and their recognition by the French education system.Our research falls under the didactics of languages and cultures, open to pluridisciplinarity, and borrows especially from anthropology, sociology and psychology. It takes as study field the middle school Emile Zola of Rennes and relies on a mixed corpus of interviews, teaching materials and the official documents. Considering as social actors the 5 teachers, 20 students and 16 parents, the study was able to show the importance of social factors in the development of cultural and intercultural competences of learners in Chinese teaching of French secondary education.

This thesis is concerned with the analysis of sets of German language textbooks intended for the second grade of elementary school dating from the nineties until now from the point of view of the historical development of the mediation of language culture and background. The theoretical part clarifies the terms substantial for the issue in question, it describes the historical development of language culture and background teaching, individual approaches to the mediation of language culture and background and while doing so, it follows the fundamental publications concerning the didactics of language culture and background and also crucial works regarding the analysis of textbook sets. The practical part describes the design of the research, its division to stages, the sample of the textbooks analysed and the establishing of the criteria according to which the textbooks will be analysed. On the basis of thus established criteria, nine textbook sets have been analysed. The method utilised was content and comparative analysis. The fundamental part of this thesis presents the results and the final evaluation. The objective of this thesis was to grasp the development of the mediation of language culture and background in the chosen sample of German language textbooks intended for the second grade of...

Šiame magistro darbe nagrinėjamos karių, vykdžiusių tarnybą užsienio šalyse tarpkultūrinės kompetencijos. Darbo tikslas- remiantis teoriniu karių tarpkultūrinių kompetencijų modeliu empiriškai ištirti karių, dalyvavusių multikultūrinio ugdymo procese, tarpkultūrinių kompetencijų raišką. Išanalizavus mokslinę literatūrą sudarytas teorinis karių tarpkultūrinių kompetencijų modelis bei karių kompetencijų raiškos lygmenys, kuriais remiantis naudojant kokybinį tyrimą analizuojami tyrimo duomenys ir atskleidžiamos karių multikultūrinio ugdymo spragos. Gauti tyrimo rezultatai patvirtina hipotezę, kad tarpkultūrinių kompetencijų trūkumas apsunkina karių sėkmingos trumpalaikės integracijos į kitą kultūrą procesą. / This paper researches intercultural competence of soldiers, who were employed in foreign countrys. The aim is to measure and evaluat the level of expression of intercultural competences by soldiers, who participated in military cross- cultural education, with reference to a theoretical model of soldiers intercultural competence. By analizing academic literature was designed a model of soldiers intercultural competence and build an expression criteria. On the ground of these criteria by using a qualitative reasearch method, study data was analized and lack of military cross- cultural education detected. The research confirmed a hypothesis that, a lack of intercultural competence is a barrier for successful short- time integration of soldiers in to a different culture.

políticos em muitos países do mundo e, em tais contextos, a competência intercultural é tida como uma característica desejável para todos aqueles que, cada vez mais, cruzam as fronteiras entre culturas. A partir da nossa experiência pessoal em nível linguístico-identitário e profissional, enquanto professora de Italiano como Língua Estrangeira, entendemos que a reflexão explícita sobre a comunicação intercultural mereça um lugar na sala de aula de Língua Estrangeira. Com base nesses pressupostos, é objetivo da nossa pesquisa salientar a vertente intercultural do ensino-aprendizagem na sala de aula de Italiano como Língua Estrangeira e, especificamente, verificar se uma atividade didática, construída a partir dos pressupostos do Modelo de Desenvolvimento de Sensibilidade Intercultural MDSI (BENNETT, 1993) e de outros modelos interculturais, pode, de fato, estimular a sensibilidade ou a competência intercultural não apenas em nível cognitivo, mas também perceptivo. Deseja-se, ademais, verificar se o exercício \"Descrição, Interpretação e Avaliação\" (Description, Interpretation and Evaluation Exercise DIE) (BENNETT; BENNETT, 1988), que visa a promover a compreensão e a diferenciação entre os três conceitos citados, incentiva a tomada de consciência dos juízos de valor dos sujeitos da pesquisa, fazendo vir à tona sua relatividade pessoal e cultural. Em um plano mais geral, almeja-se registrar efeitos e reações dos aprendizes em contato com tal atividade didática. Em nível metodológico optamos pelo método qualitativo que, de acordo com Donna Mertens (1998), pertence ao paradigma de pesquisa interpretativo/construtivista (interpretive/constructivist) e que remete, portanto, à mesma teoria epistemológica que fundamenta o MDSI. A atividade didática criada foi experimentada junto a duas turmas de alunos de Italiano como Língua Estrangeira no âmbito da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo. Os dados recolhidos na experimentação parecem demonstrar que o exercício DIE permitiu alcançar os propósitos da pesquisa, pois os alunos, em linhas gerais, conseguiram: (a) captar e diferenciar os elementos descritivos, interpretativos e avaliativos nos textos propostos na atividade didática; (b) entender sua natureza ao mesmo tempo pessoal e cultural; (c) em parte, aplicar e interpretar de forma pessoal e criativa o exercício DIE ao tema proposto na atividade didática elaborada para a realização da parte empírica da pesquisa. Em nível mais geral, os alunos compreenderam que o principal foco da atividade didática (não explicitado antecipadamente) foi tentar apreender elementos da cultura subjetiva italiana e que os procedimentos por meio dos quais isso ocorreu (o DIE e a empatia) são ferramentas que podem ser utilizadas em diferentes contextos culturais. / The concepts of \"difference\" and \"identity\" are now a leitmotif in social and political debates in many countries worldwide. In this context, the intercultural competence is considered to be a desirable feature for those who, more and more frequently, are crossing borders between cultures. From my personal both in terms of language and self-identity and from the professional experience, as teacher of Italian as a Foreign Language, I understand that the explicit reflection on intercultural communication deserves a place in the foreign language classroom. Based on such assumptions, the main goal of this research is to highlight the intercultural dimension of teaching and learning in the Italian language classes, and more specificically to verify if a teaching activity, inspired by the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity DMIS (BENNETT, 1993), and other intercultural models, can indeed stimulate the sensitivity and the intercultural competence, not only at a cognitive level, but also at a perceptual level. In addition, we would like to check whether the exercise called the Description, Interpretation, and Evaluation Exercise - DIE (BENNETT, BENNETT, 1988), which aims at fostering the understanding and the differentiation the three concepts mentioned, encourages awareness of the judgments of value in the subjects in this research, highlighting their personal and cultural identity. More generally, we aim at registering the effects and reactions of the learners in contact with such an activity. At a methodological level, we chose the qualitative method that according to Donna Mertens (1998) belongs to the interpretive/constructivist research paradigm and, therefore, refers to the same epistemological theory behind DMIS. The teaching activity developed during this research was applied to the two different groups of students of Italian as a Foreign Language in the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo. The data collected in the trial seems to show that the exercise DIE allowed us to achieve the purposes of the research, once the students, in general, had success in: (a) understanding and being able to distinguish the descriptive, interpretive and evaluative elements in the proposed texts during the teaching activities; (b) understanding their own nature as being \"personal\" and \"cultural\" at the same time; (c) in part, to applying and interpreting in a personal and creative way the DIE exercise, which was proposed as an activity designed to carry out the empirical part of this research. On a broader sense, the students were also able to understand that the main focus of the activity (which was not explicit beforehand) was to attempt to grasp elements of the Italian subjective culture. It is noteworthy that the procedures by which this occurred (the DIE and \"the empathy\") are tools that can be used in different cultural contexts.

La formazione alle competenze interculturali nasce dalla volontà di approfondire una tematica particolarmente discussa nell’ambito internazionale. Affrontare il tema della formazione alle competenze interculturali, e ancor di più nell’ambito dell’adozione internazionale, rappresenta una sfida ed un’enorme potenzialità per coloro che sono direttamente impegnati nelle attività di adozione internazionale. Lo studio ha posto in evidenza la necessità della formazione delle coppie aspiranti all’adozione e dei genitori adottivi, per poter rendere possibile una trasformazione profonda. La ricerca si compone di una parte sperimentale che ha visto il coinvolgimento della maggior parte degli enti autorizzati italiani che si occupano di formare le coppie all’adozione. Nella seconda parte dello studio, si è compiuta un’analisi in profondità dei percorsi formativi progettati e realizzati da tre enti autorizzati italiani, quali AFN (Azione per Famiglie Nuove), AIBI (Associazione Amici dei Bambini) e CIAI (Centro Italiano Aiuto all’Infanzia). E’ stato possibile delineare degli approcci specifici e degli elementi caratterizzanti tali percorsi, emersi nel confronto tra le realtà associative. Gli interrogativi iniziali e gli approfondimenti effettuati con lo studio di casi, hanno reso possibile il riconoscimento dell’incidenza della dimensione educativa nel percorso adottivo e l’individuazione di tre orientamenti formativi. I presupposti indicati, che hanno favorito l’individuazione di un quadro concettuale di riferimento ed un assetto applicativo, hanno aperto nuove prospettive di sviluppo sul tema delle competenze interculturali nell’ambito dell’adozione internazionale. Nell’ultima parte del testo si sono approfondite le definizioni intorno al concetto di competenze, ed in particolare di competenze interculturali. L’analisi sulle competenze ha mostrato l’esistenza di differenti modelli di competenze culturali, transculturali ed interculturali. Questa ricerca ha approfondito sia il significato delle competenze interculturali per le coppie e i genitori adottivi, sia le caratteristiche di una formazione alle competenze interculturali, indicando delle possibili modalità di applicazione. / Training in intercultural matters arises from the need of going into depth of a subject particularly discussed in international circles. To face the subject of training in intercultural matters and, even more in the matter of international adoption, represents a challenge and an enormous potential for those who are directly involved in the activity of international adoption. Studies have underlined necessity of training prospective and adoptive parents, in order to ensure a transformation. The research is made up of an experimental method which involves a large number of Authorised Italian Organizations which deal with training of adoptive families. In part of this study, was made a analysis of training systems realised by three Authorised Organizations, such have AFN (Azione per Famiglie Nuove), AIBI (Associazione Amici dei Bambini) and CIAI (Centro Italiano Aiuto all’Infanzia). It was possible to identify some specific approaches and some characteristic elements of these approaches, which arose when comparing realities. The initial questions and studies made when cases were examined made it possible to recognise the incidence of the educational size of the adoption schedule and the indication of three training methods. The indicated suppositions, which favoured the selection of a conceptual item of reference and possible application, opened a new prospective for development of the subject of intercultural matters in international adoption circles. In the last part of the text, the definition of the concept of competences was thoroughly defined and in particular intercultural competences. The analysis of competences showed the existence of different forms of cultural, transcultural and intercultural competences. This research has explained the significance of intercultural duties for prospective and adoptive parents. Be they the characteristics in the training of intercultural duties, indicating possible ways of application.

Sociocultural disability of foreign pupils and professional qualification of teachers The aim of the dissertation thesis is to analyze the vocational qualification of teachers in relation to socio-cultural disability of foreign pupils (pupils with a different mother tongue). The theoretical part presents current knowledge regarding the issues of education of foreign pupils (pupils with a different mother tongue) in Czech and foreign background. It defines basic approaches to socio-cultural disabilities and content framework of vocational qualification in relation to foreigner's pupils. The theoretical part is based mainly on the latest intercultural education, special education and other educational disciplines. Another source of information is an empirical study which determines what should be the content of training teachers to effectively teach foreigner's pupil (the pupil with a different mother tongue). The empirical part presents the results of research focused on the training of teachers in relation to foreigner's pupils. The objective of the research was refined by formulation of research questions. A questionnaire technique was used for teachers and students of the Faculty of Education at University of West Bohemia (Field of study: Teaching at Elementary School, 1st stage), semi-structured...

políticos em muitos países do mundo e, em tais contextos, a competência intercultural é tida como uma característica desejável para todos aqueles que, cada vez mais, cruzam as fronteiras entre culturas. A partir da nossa experiência pessoal em nível linguístico-identitário e profissional, enquanto professora de Italiano como Língua Estrangeira, entendemos que a reflexão explícita sobre a comunicação intercultural mereça um lugar na sala de aula de Língua Estrangeira. Com base nesses pressupostos, é objetivo da nossa pesquisa salientar a vertente intercultural do ensino-aprendizagem na sala de aula de Italiano como Língua Estrangeira e, especificamente, verificar se uma atividade didática, construída a partir dos pressupostos do Modelo de Desenvolvimento de Sensibilidade Intercultural MDSI (BENNETT, 1993) e de outros modelos interculturais, pode, de fato, estimular a sensibilidade ou a competência intercultural não apenas em nível cognitivo, mas também perceptivo. Deseja-se, ademais, verificar se o exercício \"Descrição, Interpretação e Avaliação\" (Description, Interpretation and Evaluation Exercise DIE) (BENNETT; BENNETT, 1988), que visa a promover a compreensão e a diferenciação entre os três conceitos citados, incentiva a tomada de consciência dos juízos de valor dos sujeitos da pesquisa, fazendo vir à tona sua relatividade pessoal e cultural. Em um plano mais geral, almeja-se registrar efeitos e reações dos aprendizes em contato com tal atividade didática. Em nível metodológico optamos pelo método qualitativo que, de acordo com Donna Mertens (1998), pertence ao paradigma de pesquisa interpretativo/construtivista (interpretive/constructivist) e que remete, portanto, à mesma teoria epistemológica que fundamenta o MDSI. A atividade didática criada foi experimentada junto a duas turmas de alunos de Italiano como Língua Estrangeira no âmbito da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo. Os dados recolhidos na experimentação parecem demonstrar que o exercício DIE permitiu alcançar os propósitos da pesquisa, pois os alunos, em linhas gerais, conseguiram: (a) captar e diferenciar os elementos descritivos, interpretativos e avaliativos nos textos propostos na atividade didática; (b) entender sua natureza ao mesmo tempo pessoal e cultural; (c) em parte, aplicar e interpretar de forma pessoal e criativa o exercício DIE ao tema proposto na atividade didática elaborada para a realização da parte empírica da pesquisa. Em nível mais geral, os alunos compreenderam que o principal foco da atividade didática (não explicitado antecipadamente) foi tentar apreender elementos da cultura subjetiva italiana e que os procedimentos por meio dos quais isso ocorreu (o DIE e a empatia) são ferramentas que podem ser utilizadas em diferentes contextos culturais. / The concepts of \"difference\" and \"identity\" are now a leitmotif in social and political debates in many countries worldwide. In this context, the intercultural competence is considered to be a desirable feature for those who, more and more frequently, are crossing borders between cultures. From my personal both in terms of language and self-identity and from the professional experience, as teacher of Italian as a Foreign Language, I understand that the explicit reflection on intercultural communication deserves a place in the foreign language classroom. Based on such assumptions, the main goal of this research is to highlight the intercultural dimension of teaching and learning in the Italian language classes, and more specificically to verify if a teaching activity, inspired by the Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity DMIS (BENNETT, 1993), and other intercultural models, can indeed stimulate the sensitivity and the intercultural competence, not only at a cognitive level, but also at a perceptual level. In addition, we would like to check whether the exercise called the Description, Interpretation, and Evaluation Exercise - DIE (BENNETT, BENNETT, 1988), which aims at fostering the understanding and the differentiation the three concepts mentioned, encourages awareness of the judgments of value in the subjects in this research, highlighting their personal and cultural identity. More generally, we aim at registering the effects and reactions of the learners in contact with such an activity. At a methodological level, we chose the qualitative method that according to Donna Mertens (1998) belongs to the interpretive/constructivist research paradigm and, therefore, refers to the same epistemological theory behind DMIS. The teaching activity developed during this research was applied to the two different groups of students of Italian as a Foreign Language in the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo. The data collected in the trial seems to show that the exercise DIE allowed us to achieve the purposes of the research, once the students, in general, had success in: (a) understanding and being able to distinguish the descriptive, interpretive and evaluative elements in the proposed texts during the teaching activities; (b) understanding their own nature as being \"personal\" and \"cultural\" at the same time; (c) in part, to applying and interpreting in a personal and creative way the DIE exercise, which was proposed as an activity designed to carry out the empirical part of this research. On a broader sense, the students were also able to understand that the main focus of the activity (which was not explicit beforehand) was to attempt to grasp elements of the Italian subjective culture. It is noteworthy that the procedures by which this occurred (the DIE and \"the empathy\") are tools that can be used in different cultural contexts.

In the world of research, the decolonial perspective is not a field to study but a way of thinking and to exist in the world. This perspective sees the current form of "research" as something linked to European imperialism and colonialism in history that, until this day, still overshadows other ways of knowing and creating information (Liebel, 2017).In this qualitative research, we explored how aware of coloniality are international sports students in the Dutch context since Europe was the epicenter of colonialism. What do students know about colonialism and the decolonial perspective? Moreover, do these students consider it necessary to reflect their own knowledge through decolonial perspectives if they have a concept of it? This research aims to investigate the level of awareness among international undergraduate Sport studies science students regarding colonialism and its effects on their education. It further explores to what extent these students are being taught decolonial approaches and critical thinking skills to unbiasedly scrutinize the current world of academia. The research uses an exploratory research design employing a qualitative research method, in-depth semi-structured interviews to collect the data. Semi-structured interviews use a blend of closed and open-ended questions, leaving room for follow-up and how questions and through that can reveal unexpected insights and information throughout the interview (Adams, 2015). The collected data is analyzed by adapting the composite narratives approach by mapping similar information together from various interviews and creating two different story narratives using fictional characters (John and Nicol). The stories are then interpreted based on the theoretical framework of the research, which draws upon a critical perspective on the house of modernity, and epistemological violence. The results revealed that students lack the basic understanding and awareness of the concept of colonialism and its effects on their current education. The Sport studies Bachelors' level education program under investigation is not inclined to go outside the borders of the status quo and does not encourage their students to explore other ways of interpreting information such as the Decolonial perspective and others.

The theme of this dissertation thesis is the relation of bilingual education and educational projects aimed at European issues. The research part was conducted at bilingual upper secondary schools in the Czech Republic, Germany and Great Britain (Wales). In the thesis the themes such as European politics, intercultural dialogue, international peace, human rights, humanitarian aid and language education are primarily included into European issues. The empirical research was deliberately realized at bilingual schools, where the instruction is delivered throught the medium of two languages. With regard to this fact a frequent participation at educational projects with European focus (European projects) was anticipated at these schools. European projects are often interconnected with the laguage studies. In recent years education projects have been an important part of the curriculum in Czech, German and British environment and they play a vital role in education context. The projects enrich the bilingual instruction from both methodical and content perspective and enable launching cooperation between schools and other partner institutions. Bilingual education has lately been supported by international educational strategies aimed at cultural biodiversity and multilingualism. In European Union The...