Multicultural Education WNP-PE-MEDUWO

Description of ECTS:
participation in classes - 30,
own work:
- reading the given literature - 10,
- answering Moodle questions - 5,
- preparation of a final essay - 15.

Methods of checking of the objectives of education:
- attendance list will be conducted,
- controlling the familiarization with the indicated literature means of Moodle questions;
- preparation of final essay.

The final grade will be the mean of: (1) all the notes obtained for answering Moodle questions - (50%), and (2) the note of the essay (50%).

Grading scale:
5.0
- getting 90-100 points for the activities listed above.
4.5.
- getting 80-89 points for the activities listed above.
4.0
- getting 70-79 points for the activities listed above.
3.5
- getting 60-69 points for the activities listed above.
3.0
- getting 50-59 points for the activities listed above.
2.0 (failed)
- getting less then 50 points for the activities listed above.

Basic literature:

Ruth Benedict, Patterns of culture. Routledge: New York 1960.
Carl A. Grant, Christine E. Sleeter, Doing Multicultural Education for Achievement and Equity. Routledge: New York – London 2007.
Suzanne Majhanovich, Christine Fox, Adila Pasalic Kreso (Eds), Living Together. Education and Intercultural Dialogue. Springer 2009.

Supplementary literature:
Geert Hofstede, Gert Jan Hofstede, Michael Minkov, Cultures and Organisation. Intercultual Cooperation and Its Importance for Survival. McGraw-Hill: 2010.
Josef Huber (Ed.), Intercultural competence for all. Preparation for living in a heterogeneous world, 2012.
Jan Masschelein, Maarten Simons, In Defence of the School a Public Issue. Culture & Society Publishers, Leuven 2013.

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

• Description of WNP-PE-MEDUWO in USOSweb