International schools and intercultural sensitivity

• Autores: Nigel Bagnall
• Localización: Revista europea de etnografía de la educación, ISSN 1645-8699, Nº. 5, 2008, págs. 131-144
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Jerome Bruner (1996, p. ix) writes, �that education is not just about conventional school matters like curriculum or standards or testing. What we resolve to do in school makes no sense when considered in the broader context of what society intends to accomplish through its educational investment in the young�. One of the most liable schools or group of schools must surely be those that are considered international schools. These small but influential clusters of schools have the potential to lead national schools into the promised land of �global citizenship� (UNICEF, 1991), �education for international understanding�(UNESCO, 1968), and �world mindedness� (Sampson & Smith, 1957). This paper looks at the task ahead and the journey travelled so far in the promotion of mutual understanding and cross-cultural education from the perspective of some fifty teachers and twenty students interviewed at a variety of international schools.