We – the teachers and other staff in education – are prepared to take our share of the responsibility in the awareness-raising work which is now necessary throughout society.
In schools, as in surrounding society, the situation is complicated and worrying. Unemployment, exclusion and poverty are factors of importance in the analysis of the causes of this situation, and they can be regarded as contributing factors to phenomena such as violence, bullying, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance.
Intercultural Education represents an approach, an attitude which in itself contributes to preventing and counteracting racism and xenophobia among pupils, students, teachers and ather staff. But Intercultural Education is more than that. If an intercultural attitude permeates all situations of learning, inter-personal relations and extracurricular activities, I belive it will contribute to brigning a more open, tolerant, and problem-solving approach into school work.
Obviously, it is important that teachers and other staff act in various concrete ways, e.g. analysing text books, software, curricula, teacher education and legislation; monitoring our own behavoir and that of others, and proposing changes where necessary.
Teacher education, both initial and in-service, must play a key part in fighting racism and xenophobia, and in promoting Intercultural Education and cultural diversity.
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