Course Description
This course helps secondary and tertiary educators reflect on and enhance the values behind their teaching practices. Participants will be equipped to prepare students for effective communication in multicultural work and educational settings, essential in a globalized world. The course also supports educators in guiding students and colleagues for international exchanges and mobility programs. It emphasizes reflection on individual and national educational values, teaching styles, and material development to foster perspective shifts and adaptive communication.
Upon completion, participants will:
- Understand cultural value orientation theory.
- Analyze and manage intercultural differences with awareness and inclusive communication.
- Identify values behind cultural differences in education.
- Support students and staff for international programs.
- Enhance analytical and emotional intelligence for solving intercultural challenges.
- Gain practical experience in preparing others for international interactions.
Objectives
Knowledge
- Understand cultural value differences, stereotyping, and culture shock.
- Know assertive communication strategies.
Skills
- Set aside personal viewpoints to see and respond to situations from alternative perspectives.
- Manage and resolve intercultural conflicts using assertive communication.
- Compare the main traits of their own culture with target cultures.
Attitude
- Be open, tolerant, and approach colleagues and students from other cultures with genuine interest and acceptance.
- Strive to understand other cultures and communicate a realistic image of their own culture.
Autonomy and Responsibility
- Continuously develop intercultural skills, language knowledge, and vocabulary independently.
- Apply acquired strategies responsibly in real intercultural interactions.
Target Group
This course is designed for educators of all levels as well as individuals interested in the topic.
Learning Outcomes
- Lessons include some frontal work, with the majority of time spent in small groups and pairs.
- Discussions, reflections, project work and collaboration are paramount
- Participants will have analyzed their value systems through deep reflection
- participants will have created 3 pieces of original tasks targeting the development of intercultural communicative and global competence with a view to cultural value orientation, for students or staff to prepare them for exchange or mobility programs connected to cultural value orientations (e.g. comparing countries’ ‘invisible cultural elements’/values behind traditions/ attitudes to time, gender, hierarchy, rules and regulations, emotions, context, individual and the community/ negotiating, debating, scheduling styles/ organizational cultures)
- Peer and self – assessment strategies
Learning Programme and Tasks
TBC
Dates and Prices
| Language level: | English B1 and above* |
| Locations: | Budapest (Hungary), Pula (Croatia) |
| Time: | 9 AM to 2:30 PM daily (extracurricular activities outside of learning activities) |
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| Price: | Budapest: €430 (5 days), Pula: €510 (6 days) - including an extracurricular activity and a welcome lunch or dinner |
*The language of the course is English, linguistic aid may be provided for speakers of Hungarian with lower language abilities.
Conditions
The course complies with all rules as set in the Quality Standards of the Erasmus+ program. Extracurricular activities are in addition to the lessons, and study groups are international. Note: should the latter condition not be met, participants will be informed 40 days in advance.
Payment facilities: participants with funding from the actual year’s project budget may ask to request a deposit of EUR 100 to guarantee their places on the course and pay the rest of the fees later.
It is possible to take part in 2 consecutive courses, please book both separately. A price reduction of 15% will be applied.
