Intercultural sensitivity among students-future teachers

Jovanova-Mitkovska, Snezana and Popeska, Biljana and Smilkov, Nikola (2021) Intercultural sensitivity among students-future teachers. In: Мeждународна научна конференција на тема: Формиране на компетентност во современата образовна реалност, 26 - 27 Nov 2021, Sofija. (In Press)

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Abstract

One of the priorities of every multicultural modern society is promotion and nurturing of intercultural sensitivity. Intercultural sensitivity can be established as a key competence through intercultural education. Awareness and acceptance of cultural diversity, awareness of rights and responsibilities, perception and learning of different languages, interest and curiosity for the differences, its acceptance, respect and cooperation, is established and developed within the educational process. In this process, teachers are one of the key actors. The quality and successful realization of intercultural education largely depends on its intercultural competence, intercultural sensitivity, perceived and understood as an interest in another culture, observing and understanding cultural differences and consciously changing personal behavior by respecting other cultures. Teachers should be the model for the development of intercultural sensitivity in the younger generations. Only interculturally competent, interculturally sensitive teachers can encourage the younger generations to develop and form an intercultural sense.
Is intercultural sensitivity developed among young generations of future teachers? What is the current condition? What are the recommendations? The answers of these and other similar questions we got through micro research conducted on sample of future teachers, current students at Faculty of educational sciences at Goce Delcev University in Stip. The main hypothesis was that students, future teachers are interculturally competent, interculturally sensitive. The study sample was comprised of 42 students in all years of study at four different study programs. Descriptive-explicit method, the method of theoretical analysis were applied as research method. The scaling technique and the instrument Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) developed by Chen & Starotsa (2000) was implemented. Obtained results support the main hypothesis and based on that recommendations in the direction of strengthening the intercultural sense in the future teachers were presented.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Educational sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Educational Science
Depositing User:	Snezana Jovanova
Date Deposited:	09 Mar 2022 08:09
Last Modified:	09 Mar 2022 08:09
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/29464

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