BALANCING BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE IN INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION; THE CASE OF INTERCULTURAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN GREECE

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  • Evanthia Tsaliki Visiting Research Associate, International Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL Institute of Education, University of London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v0i0.442

Keywords:

intercultural education, primary education, mixed-method approach

Abstract

This paper explores teachers’ and head teachers’ perceptions of the nature of intercultural education within the thirteen intercultural primary schools in Greece. The research methodology adopted is a mixed-method approach which has been employed in order to achieve a better understanding of the issue examined. The research methods used include questionnaires administered and interviews undertaken with teachers and head teachers. The results indicate that although teachers may be aware of the main principles of the theoretical background of intercultural education, most of them agree that they are not implemented in the classroom, especially as regards the principle that foreign pupils’ mother tongue should be taken into account in the curriculum and they provide a number of reasons for that. The contribution of this study to the topic examined is significant since there has been no previous research conducted in all 13 intercultural primary schools in Greece.

 

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  • Evanthia Tsaliki, Visiting Research Associate, International Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL Institute of Education, University of London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

    The author has got a fourteen-year teaching experience in primary school. She acts as a visiting research associate based on the International Centre of Intercultural education in UCL Institute of Education as well as a scientific collaborator for the supervision of MA dissertations in the Department of Education of the European University of Cyprus. She has made presentations in national and international conferences, she has acted as a trainer of newly qualified teachers and her role as a reviewer in national and international conferences, the International Journal of Multicultural Education and ‘Educate’ journal is in due course.

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2017-01-11

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