Este trabalho teve como objetivo geral investigar dimensões dos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem utilizados na contemporaneidade e protagonizados por jovens, estudantes do ensino médio integrado ao profissionalizante, de uma escola pública da cidade de Campina Grande/PB e seus professores, estudantes do Curso de Informática da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba (UEPB). Parte do princípio de que a juventude, como um conceito forjado na modernidade, não dá conta de cobrir as diversidades de jovens que constroem suas subjetividades de maneiras distintas, forjadas em contextos culturais próprios em que eles se constituem como sujeitos ativos. Se quisermos, pois, conhecer os jovens e suas práticas, devemos procurar observá-los em contextos concretos. Nesse sentido, minha incursão pelas práticas dos jovens docentes-alunos junto aos estudantes do ensino médio se constituiu como uma oportunidade ímpar de observar como eles mediam as aprendizagens dos alunos para os usos das TIC. Além disso, a necessidade de conhecer como os alunos da UEPB (alunos-docentes) são formados para os usos das TIC me levou à busca de como ocorre sua formação na Universidade, enquanto alunos de professores adultos. Para a realização do estudo assumi com os sujeitos - estudantes do ensino médio e seus professores universitários uma relação pautada no diálogo e na alteridade (AMORIM,2002, 2004; JOBIM E SOUZA, 1995, 2011; BAKHTIN, 1981, 2003 dentre outros). No estudo comparecem diversos autores que, trazendo esclarecimentos sobre a relação dos sujeitos com os ambientes ciberculturais, me auxiliaram a construir os dados com os sujeitos e a interpretá-los; (LÉVY, 1993, 1996, 1999; LEMOS, 2007, 2011; PRIMO, 2008; SANTAELLA, 2003, 2004; CAVALCANTI & NEPOMUCENO, 2007; VEEN & VRAKKING, 2009; BONILLA, 2009, 2011; PRETTO, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2008 dentre outros). O estudo mostrou que os jovens, alunos-docentes da UEPB, possuem mais experiência com as TIC do que os seus professores (adultos). A proficiência para o uso das TIC pelos docentes-alunos do ensino médio se revelou em diferentes momentos de suas práticas junto àqueles alunos. O estudo mostra, ainda, que os alunos do ensino médio vêem inúmeras vantagens em estudar com os docentes-alunos do UEPB porque eles compartilham de sua imersão na cibercultura, porque eles se colocam no patamar de interlocutores dos alunos, valorizando seus conhecimentos, seus modos de ser e de expressar-se, porque eles demonstram que ensinar e aprender são processos que supõem trocar de lugar, entendendo o outro em sua alteridade. Tais achados permitem discernir, para além da especificidade do estudo realizado, que o mal-estar de professores e alunos na escola pode ser superado pela transformação das relações que se baseiam na superioridade da experiência dos primeiros sobre a dos segundos. / This work had as a general aim to investigate the dimensions of the processes of teaching and learning used in the contemporaneity and played by young people, high school students integrated on professsional courses, of a public school in the city of Campina Grande/PB and their teachers, students of the computing course at the State University of Paraíba/UEPB). Follow the principle that young people as a unique concept, forged in modernity, it can not cope with the diversity of the young people. That build their subjectivities of distinct ways. Forged in their own cultural contexts in which they constitute themselves as active subjects. In fact, if want to know the young people and their practices, we should look for and observe them in concrete contexts. In this sense, my incursion through the practices of the young graduating teachers-students with the students of high school was constituded as a unique opportunity of showing how they measure the students' learning. with the use of TIC. The necessity of knowing how the students of UEPB (graduating students) are graduated to the use of TIC. It took me to the search of knowledge that are taught at UEPB. While students of adult professor. for the achievement of the study I have assumed with the students of this university and with the high school students -the students' student of UEPB - a relationship based on dialogue and in alterity (AMORIN, 2002, 2004; JOBIN E SOUZA, 1995, 2011; BAKHTIN, 1981, 2003 among others). This study attend diverses authors to approach knowledge related to contemporary cultures - the ciberculture - LÉVY,1993, 1996, 1999; LEMOS,2007,2011; PRIMO, 2008; SANTAELLA, 2003,2004; CAVALCANTI & NEPOMUCENO, 2007; VEEN & VRAKKING, 2009; BONILLA, 2009; PRETTO, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2008 AMONG OTHERS). This study has shown that young people, graduating students from UEPB have more experience with TIC than their professors (adults). The proficiency for the use of the TIC through graduating students of high school revealed itself in different moments of its practice together with the students of high school. It also shows the study that high school students see countless advantages in study with the graduating students of UFPB because they share in the ciberculture; because they have a language near to the students; because they do not put themselves in places higher than the students. When dealing with level of knowledge is approached; because they are humble to recognize that they also learn while teaching. All of this take us to affirm that teaching and learning at the midia age demands the acknowledgement of alterity of groups involved in both processes.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:19:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 SAMARA GONCALVES LIMA.pdf: 1123517 bytes, checksum: 6a92d097acf6edc503b399a422ec8de4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-01 / This study originated from the urge to observe, analyze and discuss the educational experiences at the inclusive school in Brazil, more specifically the beliefs of the participants about the English language learning and teaching processes to the deaf learners. After preliminary observations in this context, I decided to focus on the perceptions of a former deaf High School student whose participation in the English class interaction was considered above average by her two former teachers and theses teachers beliefs about the processes of learning and teaching the English Language to deaf students. Thus, a retrospective of the classes in which the student participant in this research was made by the two teachers in order to describe her performance. A second step was to meet the participant, who, at the moment, is doing the Pedagogy course at a university in Goiás. During these meetings, video recorded interviews mediated by a sign language interpreter were made. Moreover, the three participants, i.e. the two teachers and the deaf student also answered a questionnaire. Based on these data, a survey on the beliefs of one of the teachers and the deaf student, participants in this study, was made. In relation to the theoretical references followed by this study, reviews were made about the following three major themes: inclusive education from a socioanthropogical perspective; Vygotsky s social intreactionist theory and its relation to learning; as well as the theory on learners and teachers beliefs based on authors such as Barcelos (1999, 2004), Almeida-Filho (1993), Richards and Lockart, (1994). The qualitative research was the methodology adopted to collect and analyze the data. Instruments like interviews, questionnaires and field notes were used in order to triangulate the data and interpret the results. Finally, the data analyses reveal that teaching English to deaf students demands the adoption of new perspectives and attitudes towards the process by practitioners. / Este estudo surge da necessidade de se observar, ouvir, analisar e discutir experiências educacionais no contexto da sala de aula inclusiva, especialmente no que concerne às crenças sobre o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de língua inglesa para surdos. Neste estudo, após observar este contexto sob diferentes perspectivas, decidi investigar uma aluna surda egressa que participava ativamente das aulas de inglês no Ensino Médio. Desta forma, foi elaborada, juntamente com dois professores, uma retrospectiva das aulas de LI de quando essa aluna estudava. Em uma outra etapa, foram marcados encontros com a aluna que hoje é estudante universitária do curso de Pedagogia. Nesses encontros, foram realizadas entrevistas semi-estruturadas, intermediadas por uma intérprete e registradas em vídeo. Além das entrevistas semi-estruturadas, os três participantes responderam a um questionário fechado. A partir desses dados, foi possível fazer um levantamento das crenças dos dois professores - relacionadas à sua prática em sala de aula - e às crenças da aluna surda. No que diz respeito ao arcabouço teórico, esta pesquisa teve como base inicial a proposta socioantropológica de educação inclusiva (EI), isto é, aquela que defende a EI como força motriz para a valorização, respeito e aceitação da diversidade. Além disso, foram revisitados os estudos sociointeracionistas de Vygotsky e as abordagens de ensino de língua estrangeira de autores influenciados por teorias vygotskianas, além de estudos sobre crenças no processo de ensino e aprendizagem de línguas, com base em estudiosos como Barcelos (1999, 2004), Almeida-Filho (1993), Richards e Lockart, (1994). Com relação às questões metodológicas, este estudo se constitui em um estudo de caso em que os dados são coletados e analisados qualitativamente, seguindo os pressupostos do paradigma interpretativista. Para obedecer às exigências da metodologia de pesquisa qualitativa, a qual defende a utilização de diferentes instrumentos para a triangulação dos dados, esta pesquisa fez uso dos seguintes instrumentos para coleta dos dados: questionários, entrevistas semi-estruturadas, notas de campo e observações em sala de aula, bem como documentos, relatos e relatórios cedidos pelos participantes. Os resultados deste estudo demonstraram a necessidade de novos olhares, reflexões e atitudes frente ao ensino de LI para surdos na escola regular-inclusiva. Apesar desta pesquisa não prover respostas prontas e acabadas para essas perguntas, acredito que os achados deste estudo possam auxiliar a desatar os nós que amarram tais problemáticas.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research is part of the research line Formation, Knowledge and Professional Development of the Pos-Doctoral Degree in Education Program of Federal University of Santa Maria, in the scope of doctorate. From theoretical lines that contemplate studies by Vygotski (1997, 2006, 2007, 2010a), Bakhtin (1988, 2006, 2010), Leontiev (1984), Freire (2000, 2001,2013, 2014, 2015), Tardif (2002), Quadros and Karnopp (1994), Stumpf (2002, 2005), we aimed to comprehend the learning of teaching of the deaf teacher considering the knowledge and practices about the gestuality and writing of sign language, central focus of this study. As specific objectives we seek to identify the trajectories of the deaf teachers about the learning of the writing of sign language; recognize the relation between the gesture sign language proficiency and its writing form in the docent learning, and recognize the knowledge and the practices of the deaf teachers and their implication about the processes of teaching and learning the writing of sign language. For this, the methodological approach used was of qualitative nature and was developed from the sociocultural perspective of narrative content. The data of the research was collected through thirteen meetings of the study group and through semi-structured interviews with five deaf teachers of the school for deaf people of the State Public Education System of the city of Santa Maria - RS. The analysis of narrative gestuality of the deaf teachers, who are responsible for the teaching of the writing of sign language SignWriting, indicated as results the process of learning of their teaching highlighting the constituent elements in this process. The data analysis indicates the category Learning of teaching of deaf teachers that characterizes itself by the form as the teacher organizes the ways of thinking and the practice of teaching, by appropriating the elements that constitute themselves in the practices and knowledge of the profession. This category is divided in three dimensions: the first dimension, conceptions and ideas about the writing of sign language: the knowledge of visual experience, which is expressed by the ideas and conceptions that the deaf teachers manifest about the writing of sign language, emphasizing the knowledge of visual experience, implied in this comprehension. The second dimension named as leaner condition in the context of deafness: the construction of the teaching expresses the way as the teacher learns how to be a teacher in his context, stressing the challenges and conditions of exerting the profession in the school for deaf people. The third dimension teaching practices of deaf teachers: the pedagogical knowledge shared in construction characterizes itself by the moment in which the deaf teachers express their comprehensions about the pedagogical work that they develop focusing on the ways of teaching and learning involved in this process. As results of investigation we noted the investment performed by the deaf teachers in the profession as teachers of writing of sign language. The deaf teachers assume the learning condition facing the reality as possible of transformation. The teaching activity of study instituted among the deaf teachers is a factor that sustains the professional qualification and strength the pedagogical choices, as the adoption of the teaching of writing of the sign language SignWriting. The culture of collaboration instituted in the meetings of the study group favored the re-organization of the practices of deaf teachers strengthening the pedagogical ways adopted. The school for deaf people constitutes itself as a potential space to formation, reflection and innovation of school practices. / Esta pesquisa insere-se na linha de pesquisa Formação, Saberes e Desenvolvimento Profissional do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, em âmbito de doutoramento. A partir de fios teóricos que contemplam estudos de Vygotski (1997, 2006, 2007, 2010a), Bakhtin (1988, 2006, 2010), Leontiev (1984), Freire (2000, 2001, 2013, 2014, 2015), Tardif (2002), Quadros e Karnopp (2004), Stumpf (2002, 2005), buscamos compreender a aprendizagem da docência do professor surdo considerando os saberes e fazeres acerca da sinalização e escrita da língua de sinais, foco central desse estudo. Como objetivos específicos buscamos identificar as trajetórias dos professores surdos acerca da aprendizagem da escrita da língua de sinais; reconhecer a relação entre o domínio da língua de sinais e a sua forma escrita na aprendizagem docente, e reconhecer os saberes e os fazeres dos professores surdos e sua implicação sobre os processos de ensinar e de aprender a escrita da língua de sinais. Para tanto, a abordagem metodológica utilizada foi de natureza qualitativa e desenvolveu-se a partir da perspectiva sociocultural de cunho narrativo. Os dados da pesquisa foram coletados por meio de treze reuniões do grupo de estudos e de entrevistas semiestruturadas com cinco professores surdos da escola para surdos do Sistema Público Estadual de Educação da cidade de Santa Maria - RS. A análise da narrativa sinalizada dos professores surdos, que são responsáveis pelo ensino da escrita da língua de sinais SignWriting, indicaram como resultados o processo de aprendizagem da docência deles destacando os elementos constituintes nesse processo. A análise dos dados nos indicam a categoria Aprendizagem da docência de professores surdos que caracteriza-se pela forma como o professor organiza os modos de pensar e fazer a docência, apropriando-se dos elementos que se constituem nos fazeres e saberes da profissão. Essa categoria desdobra-se em três dimensões: a primeira dimensão, As concepções e ideias dos professores sobre a escrita da língua de sinais: os saberes da experiência visual, que é expressa pelas ideias e concepções que os professores surdos manifestam sobre a escrita da língua de sinais, destacando os saberes da experiência visual, implicados nessa compreensão. A segunda dimensão nomeada como condição aprendente no contexto da surdez: a construção da docência expressa o modo como o professor aprende a ser professor no seu contexto, destacando os desafios e condições de exercer a profissão na escola para surdos. A terceira dimensão práticas docentes dos professores surdos: o conhecimento pedagógico compartilhado em construção caracteriza-se pelo momento no qual os professores surdos expressam suas compreensões sobre o trabalho pedagógico que desenvolvem enfocando os modos de ensinar e aprender envolvidos nesse processo. Como resultados da investigação evidenciamos o investimento realizado pelos professores surdos na profissão como professores da escrita da língua de sinais. Os professores surdos assumem a condição aprendente enfrentando a realidade como passíveis de transformações. A atividade docente de estudo instituída entre os professore surdos é fator que sustenta a qualificação profissional e fortalece as escolhas pedagógicas, como a adoção do ensino da escrita da língua de sinais SignWriting. A cultura de colaboração instituída nas reuniões do grupo de estudo favoreceu a reorganização das práticas dos professores surdos fortalecendo os caminhos pedagógicos adotados. A escola para surdos se constitui como espaço potencial à formação, à reflexão e à inovação de práticas escolares.

This research project studies the management of change by school managers. South African school managers are operating in one of the most difficult environments in the world, one where many variables have an enormous influence on their main task, namely to achieve their organisation's goals and objectives. The new political dispensation in South Africa is characterized by a host of variables that can be classified under what is known as "transformation".The organization exists in a dynamic environment in which changing ways of life, as well as political trends are continually changing the environment and ultimately affecting it. Insight into trends and events in the environment, especially the ability to forecast the implications of these for managerial decision-making, are now a top priority for management, since past experience in the rapidly changing environments often of little help when the management has to deal with new problems.All organizations, including school organizations, are created and kept together by a group of people striving towards a common purpose or goal. All organizations have plans on how they will achieve the goals. These people are called managers, and they influence the success of their organizations. The success with which an organization achieves its objectives and satisfies the ever-increasing needs of society, depends on the competence of its managers.All organizations, including school organizations, are created and kept together by a group of people striving towards a common purpose or goal. All organizations have plans on how they will achieve the goals. These people are called managers, and they influence the success of their organizations. The success with which an organization achieves its objectives and satisfies the ever-increasing needs of society, depends on the competence of its managers.In developing goals, or planning the future of the organization, managers are confronted with decisions. In a decentralized organization members of the organization participate in decision making. Empowerment, which means the sharing of power with subordinates, has become a very important management issue.Change triggers emotional reaction because of the uncertainty involved, and most organisational change efforts run into some form of employee resistance. Resistance to change can be overcome by education and communication, participation and involvement, facilitation and support, negotiation and rewards, and coercion and manipulation.From the empirical research undertaken through the use of questionnaires, interviews and observation, it is apparent that managers are working hard to implement change and that all stakeholders need to be trained on issues related to change. This implies that managers have to be exemplary and motivate teachers, learners and the parent body to do their respective duties. Parents are no longer spectators in the education arena, they are part of the governance structures in schools. Their co-operation, support and participation is highly crucial in the implementation of change in schools.Several recommendations are made in respect of the Department of Education, managers, educators learners and parents in education. These recommendations will hopefully benefit all stakeholders in education and contribute in stimulating further research. / Thesis (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Education Management and Policy Studies / unrestricted

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Thesis (M. Ed. (Language Education)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / The Foundation Phase Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement’s objective is to equip children from Grade R to Grade 3 with the necessary and relevant knowledge, skills and values that will enable them to become productive, as well as functional participants in the Intermediate and Senior Phases of formal schooling as well as in global societies. However, literacy surveys at both national and international levels continue to demonstrate results that position South Africa at the least achieving levels. This signals that CAPS does not achieve its desired goals regarding learners’ performance and educational development. Given this background, there is a rise in the need for a research of this nature to explore better strategies of equipping learners with rich vocabulary for ease of language learning. This study investigates the development of oral skills (listening and speaking) in two receptive grades in rural foundation phases. The study is a phenomenological case-study which adopts a mixed methodological lens of enquiry to collect and analyse data. Data collection procedures include classroom observations, semi-structured interviews and document analysis. This investigation found that listening and speaking skills are not sufficiently developed in the investigated schools. An intensive exploration of the processes, activities, approaches and resources used for developing listening and speaking skills in both schools demonstrated that teachers lack knowledge and skills for administering activities, applying appropriate approaches and using the available literacy resources to develop listening and speaking skills. The study discussed the contributory factors to the above findings and, therefore, recommends that the Department of Education should provide Grade R teachers with in-service training and support programs. The programs should be intended to acquaint teachers with skills to use materials and to apply strategies in different ways to help all learners develop listening and speaking skills through understandable oral participation. Key words: Listening, Speaking, Literacy, Development, and Learning and Teaching

Det svenska skolsystemet genomgår en digitaliseringsprocess. I och med digitaliseringen har ett starkt intresse av att utforska olika typer av lärodata via olika läroplattformar utvecklats. För att analysera sådan data kan man ta hjälp av Learning Analytics (LA). LA är när man samlar, analyserar och rapporterar lärodata från diverse lärandeaktiviteter. För att analysera datan mer effektivt kan man ta hjälp av visualisering. Denna studie presenterar ett visualiseringsverktyg riktat till lärare. Det har utvecklats för att stödja lärare i deras förståelse av hur valda självreglerat lärande (SRL)strategier har utvärderats av studenter. Att kunna applicera SRL-strategier är av stor vikt eftersom studenter som lär sig att applicera dessa kommer att ha fördelar båda vid framtida studier och framtida arbete. Syftet med denna studie var att se hur lärodata kan visualiseras för att förstå studenters användning av lärostrategier och hur bra visualiseringsverktyget var ur ett användbarhetsperspektiv. Användbarheten av verktyget testades genom ett experiment där ett antal frågor ställdes. Svaren gick att finna i visualiseringen. Deltagarna i studien fick sedan svara på ett System Usabilityformulär. Resultaten visar att det utvecklade verktyget är användbart och att olika användare använder sig av, om möjligt, olika metoder för att komma fram till ett svar. Denna uppsats presenterar riktlinjer att ha i beaktande när ett visualiseringsverktyg som ska stödja lärare i att förstå studenters användning av SRL-strategier ska designas. / The Swedish school system is going through a digitalization process. With digitalization, a strong interest in exploring learner data available through various digital platforms has emerged. In order to analyse the data, one can take help of learning analytics (LA) which relates to collect, report and analyse data from learners or learning activities. To be able to analyse it in a more efficient way, one can take help from visualization. This study presents a visualisation tool aimed at teachers. It has in particular been developed to support teachers in their understanding of how chosen self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies were evaluated by students. SRL strategies are important to be able to apply since students who can learn to apply SRL strategies have an advantage during both future studies and work compared to those who cannot. The aim with this study was to see how learner data can be visualized in order to understand students' use of learning strategies and how good the developed visualization tool is from a usability perspective. The perceived usability of this tool was tested by means of interviews where a series of questions was asked where the answers could be found in the visualization tool. The participants also answered a System Usability Questionnaire. The results showed that the tool developed is usable and that different users of the tool tend to, if possible, use different methods to reach the answer. This thesis presents design guidelines to have in consideration when designing a visualization tool in order to aid teachers in analysing students' use of SRL strategies.

The main theme of the study is exploring and understanding the impact of an innovative continuing professional development model for integrating ICT into classroom pedagogy. The focus is on the relationship between teachers’ beliefs, knowledge and pedagogic practice in the process of developing and adopting new knowledge and skills to cope with 21st century education. The study explores the 'future schools' primary teachers’ education, in-service training, status, beliefs, knowledge, and skills of using ICT in practice in the Kuwait context. The finding from the exploratory study shows that teachers’ lack of Technological, Pedagogical and Content knowledge TPACK and that this impacts on their capacity to improve their pedagogic practice. The study applied a social-constructivist approach to understand the process of change in the nine participants' teachers' beliefs, knowledge through an innovative continuing professional development model, and stimulating teachers to develop a reflective practice skills focusing on improving pedagogic practice and using ICT. A case study approach was used as the methodology of the study to develop an understanding of the process of change in the nine participant teachers' reflection on and experienced of the effects of adopting alternative pedagogic practice and integrating ICT. The numerous small findings from the quantitative and qualitative methods applied to the six months of continuing professional development involving nine primary teachers come under four main themes: 1) In-service teachers' beliefs and knowledge development, 2) Classroom pedagogy for autonomy with ICT integration, 3) Constraints affecting future schools’ teachers' integration of ICT, and 4) The key principles of an RP-BCPD model for teachers CPD in Kuwait. The understandings from the findings of the study show that the quality of the CPD for improving teachers' pedagogic practice is affected by the socio-cultural context of the 'future schools'. The study shows that the nine participant teachers can develop effective alternative pedagogic practice and successfully integrate ICT, when they are empowered to reflect, inquire into their practice, and learn from each other and from cross-cultural best practice. The unique finding of the study indicated that the nine participant teachers experiences some difficulties with engaging in the change process because of classroom cultural context such as: teachers' TPACK knowledge and competences, curriculum overload, and classroom size. Finally, the finding shows that providing the participant teachers with reflective practice as the base of CPD programme within schools context linked learning theory to improve pedagogic practice.

Les rencontres interculturelles orientent les priorités des enseignants vers la préparation des apprenants à travailler, vivre et communiquer avec des personnes linguistiquement et culturellement différentes, mais sans véritablement insérer une composante interculturelle dans les cursus offerts par l’enseignement supérieur en Colombie. Le cours de langue étrangère est un lieu de médiation entre langues et cultures différentes et de ce fait, la compétence interculturelle peut être considérée comme l’un des buts centraux de cet enseignement. La présente étude explore ainsi les possibilités d’intégration d’une dimension interculturelle dans les formations en langues étrangères des universités colombiennes afin d’inciter les étudiants à la développer, l’utiliser et la promouvoir. Nous avons été menée à relier trois composantes qui sont la dimension interculturelle, la mobilité internationale et l’autonomisation-« empowerment » et à examiner les façons dont tous les acteurs de l’enseignement supérieur colombien, les intègrent dans leurs activités académiques, professionnelles et personnelles. Cela nous a permis de mettre en évidence le caractère nécessaire mais non indispensable de la dimension interculturelle dans l'établissement de la relation langue-culture et dans la reconnaissance de la diversité et de l’altérité. La proposition de deux modules - contextualisés et adaptables à tous les niveaux de CECR - visant la prise de conscience et le développement de la dimension interculturelle, constitue l’aboutissement de notre recherche. / Intercultural encounters set a priority for professors in order to prepare learners to work, live, and communicate with linguistically and culturally different people, but without really including intercultural components to the higher education programs offered in Colombia. The foreign language classroom is a mediation place between languages and cultures, and therefore the intercultural competence can be considered as one of the central aims of language education. This research explores the ways to integrate intercultural dimension to the foreign language programs in Colombian universities, as well as the possibilities to motivate the students to develop it, to use it and to promote it. The study incorporates insights from intercultural dimension, international mobility and empowerment theories and examines the means used by university community members in order to integrate them to their academic, professional and personal activities. Findings have allowed us to highlight the necessary, but not indispensable character of the intercultural dimension in the establishment of the language-culture relationship, as well as in the recognition of diversity and otherness. The suggestion of two educational units - contextualized and adaptable at every level of CEFR – aiming towards the awareness-raising of the intercultural dimension and competence developing process, establishes the outcome of our research