Université de Fribourg

‘Taking culture seriously’: implications for intercultural education and training

Ogay, Tania ; Edelmann, Doris

In: European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016, vol. 39, no. 3, p. 388-400

Albeit indispensable to understanding human action, the concept of culture has suffered from excessive enthusiasm in the fields of intercultural education as well as in intercultural teacher training, leading too often to culturalist stances. These excesses of intercultural education and training as well as their contradictory message (between praising and minimising – even ignoring –...

Haute Ecole pédagogique Fribourg

Éducation interculturelle et pédagogie spécialisée : tensions et ambiguïtés des discours sur la différence = Interkulturelle Erziehung und Sonderpädagogik : Spannungen und Ungewissenheiten von Differenzdiskurse

Gremion, Myriam ; Noël, Isabelle ; Ogay, Tania

In: Revue suisse des sciences de l'éducation, 2013, vol. 35, no. 1, p. 53-69

Intercultural education and special education are both fields attending to learners’ diversity. Their relations can be described as complex and ambiguous. Very close, perhaps too close, they try to differentiate themselves from one another, especially in the case of intercultural education which fears the equating of migration with handicap. Our contribution takes the challenge to break the...