GeMIC / Intercultural Education
Themes
Ge.M.IC. will focus on the intersections between gender and migration in the context of intercultural education, a considerably controversial area of socio-cultural development Education is understood as one of the main apparatuses and sites through which gendered national (cultural, religious, linguistic, ethnic) identities and histories are constructed and reproduced. more .. »
objectives
* to outline the ways in which educational institutions and practices manage cultural diversity and promote policies of “cultural integration” and “multiculturalism” while assessing their impact on gender relations in specific national settings. <--more-->
FYROM – Report on Intercultural Education
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Intercultural education in FYROM is in the early stages of development in terms of curriculum, polices, structure and practice. Changes towards developing intercultural principles were made in the newest reforms of the primary education, but in the practice they are based on individual projects and experiences of number of teachers and educational workers. On the other hand, in the secondary education there are no official strategies, policies or documents with regard to intercultural issues. Intercultural practices are left to the schools to deal with within the everyday school life in the ethnically mixed schools.
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Research Design – Education
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Our goal is to deconstruct essentialist understanding of culture and assimilationist understandings of cultural change, to explore whether intercultural interactions in schools create possibilities for the performative destabilization of gender norms and ethnic boundaries, and to reframe intercultural education in ways that takes the burden of identity away from migrant and national/ethnic minority students, and renders visible the implication of educational institutions and school actors in the mediation of ethnic borders and conflict.
