Limits of the effectiveness of intercultural education and the conceptualisation of school knowledge
Author: Ermenc, Klara1
Source: Intercultural Education, Volume 16, Number 1, March 2005 , pp. 41-55(15)
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Abstract:
I argue in this paper that the hidden and official curriculum of Slovenian public elementary schools work together to develop an ethnocentric and Eurocentric frame of mind when judging other cultures. This presents an obstacle for the professed promotion of intercultural learning and valuation, and fosters the social marginalisation of ethnic minorities. The arguments for this claim can be found in: (1) the existing dichotomy of ‘pluralistic' and ‘nationalistic' objectives of education, which can be traced to the core documents of the Slovenian public elementary school (a nine-year school); (2) the prevalence of ‘national' objectives over ‘pluralistic' ones, which is only further strengthened by the operationalisation of objectives and learning topics; and (3) the matching of the contents of selected school subjects, which place pluralistic, intercultural objectives high on their agenda, and school practice—this matching can be seen in the emphasis on ‘national' objectives, accompanied by the strengthening of ethno- and Eurocentric judgements. Vclanku branim tezo, da sta skriti in uradni kurikul v slovenski javni elementarni
oli do neke mere enotna pri oblikovanju etnocentricnega in evropocentricnega miselnega okvira za presojanje drugih kultur, kar ovira deklarirano interkulturno ucenje in vrednotenje in ohranja dru
beno marginalizacijo etnicnih manjin. To naredim tako, da prikaem: (1) dihotomijo edukacijskih ciljev med pluralisticnimi in «narodnimi» cilji, ki jih je mogoce slediti od dokumentov, ki postavljajo temelje slovenske javne elementarne ole (devetletke); (2) da prikaem premoc «narodnih», ki se z operativizacijo ciljev in ucnih vsebin krepi in (3) da prikaem enotnost med ucnimi vsebinami izbranih ucnih predmetov, ki pluralisticne, interkulturne cilje postavljajo v ospredje, ter med olsko prakso—enotnost se kae ravno v poudarjanju «narodnih» ciljev, skupaj s krepitvijo etno- in evropocentricnega presojanja.
Document Type: Research article
DOI: 10.1080/14636310500061755
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