Annotation
The course is focused on selected aspects of education of children with different cultural background. It focuses on the nature of social inequalities that on one hand come from different, minority experience of migrant and ethnic minority experiene and on the other hand that come from the nature of school as institution of modern society that aims at strengtening of homogenity or inclusion in society. Identity is an important theme that is negotiated between pupils and teachers. First it wants to show barriers that pupils from culturally diffrent background have to overcome when they come to the majority school institution. It consists of topics like inclusion of these pupils in peer groups, access to education, limits that are result of different background and preferences of families. Second it focuses on school as institution that is more or less open to inclusion, on the situation of teachers that are caught in tension of two ideological frames (national state versus globalised society). The aim is to sensitize the approach of teachers to the issue of cultural diversity and improve self respect and respect to individuality of teacher and pupil. Block I - Modern state, ethnic diversity and the role of school in education of pupils from culturally different background.
1. Cultural diversity in globalised society, national state and the role of school (social inclusion and mobility) - institutional roots of cultural non/homogenity in society, negotiation of identities in current world
2. Causes of school failures (cultural, social, biological theories)
3. Multicultural society in Czech republic and countries of "rich north"
4. Laws that guarantee children the right to education Block II – Pupil from culturally different background and limits he or she faces
5. Social exclusion and im/possibility of the path to education (primary socialisation)
6. Social exclusion and im/possibility of the path to education (primary socialisation) (secondary socialization, fight for pupil identity)
7. Involuntary migration of children and its consequences (Involuntary migration and child's feelings, language as key variable, integration into peer groups, identity construction)
8. Children of migrants and their education trajectories (linear versus segmented assimilation, limits of social mobility) Block III – Intervention into pupils education from the family or community
9. Parents strategies (passivity x empowerment, negotiation between integration and ethnic identity)
10. Educational activities of minorities and migrants as the path to conservation of original ethnicity. Block IV – School and its possibilities regarding education of pupils from culturally different background
11. Teachers and methods of conducting inclusion (stereotypes, self-reflection, ethnization, respect to pupil's identity, possible strategies.
12. Institutions that help and don't help the school in education of pupils from culturally different background. Block V – Self-reflection
13. Reflection of the situation of meeting the pupil from culturally different background. Preconcepts of pupil's coping with school. Reflection of his/her experience.