Webinar " Competences for Intercultural Dialogue" organized by Natalia Tzitzi and Najoua Slatnia; eTwinning ambassadors from Greece and Tunisia. 23 may 2018. Pedagogical Team of the European Network of eTwinning Ambassadors

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May 23rd, 2018 at 19:00
Natalia Tzitzi, eTwinning Ambassador, Greece
Najoua Slatnia, eTwinning Ambassador, Tunisia

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Competences for Intercultural Dialogue
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Before we start
A. Intercultural Dialogue (definition)
A. Competences towards an effective Intercultural Dialogue
1. List of competences
2. Tolerance (definition) Empathy (definition)
3. Empathy Tasks in class
4. Empathy Tasks in the TwinSpace
5. More Questions
A. IDiteT eTwinning Group
1. Presentation of the Group and its Activities
2. News and Resources
3. Questions
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Intercultural Dialogue
Dialogue = conversation or discussion aiming at solving a problem
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Intercultural Dialogue: Definition on the
UNESCO site
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Intercultural Dialogue
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Intercultural Competences
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Intercultural Competences
Respect for otherness:
(a)willing to suspend our values and accept that people from other cultures may view their own
culture as “natural”
(b)interested in and curious about people from other cultures
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Intercultural Competences
Acknowledgement of Identities:
the ability
(a)to acknowledge other people’s cultural identities and
(a)to recognise the meanings that people from other cultures associate with their identities
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Intercultural Competences
Tolerance of Ambiguity:
The ability to recognise and accept different perspectives on and different interpretations of any
given situation
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Intercultural Competences
Knowledge : some knowledge about
●the culture of that other person, its practices and products as well as
●the general knowledge of communication and interaction processes shaped by cultural factors
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Intercultural Competences
Social Rules are shaped by our own cultures - Social Rules shape our interaction
1.Maintaining eye contact with the person we are having a discussion with
1.Cheek kissing (once, twice, three times)
1.Having tea and … dipping a cookie in your tea?
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Intercultural Competences
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Intercultural Competences
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Intercultural Competences
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Intercultural Competences
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Tolerance
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Empathy
● the ability to project imaginatively into other people feelings
● (for intercultural dialogue) the ability to “decentre” from our own cultural presuppositions
and adopt other people’s perspective
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Tasks to nurture empathetic
behaviors in class

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Tasks to nurture empathetic behaviors in class
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Tasks to nurture empathetic behaviors in class
Task 1: Guess the feeling
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use images use YouTube videos (volume down) use emojis, emoticons

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Tasks to nurture empathetic behaviors in class
Task 2: Feel what others feel
•Mirrors!: Drama game Student A exhibits a feeling non-verbally (with body language, gesturing,
facial expressions) Student B imitates Student B.(Take photos)
•Listen to a song and act: Drama game Students should listen to a song for 30 secs and move to
its rhythm exhibiting the relevant feeling for the next 30 secs (Tip: turn off the screen)
Feeling 1 Feeling 2 Feeling 3
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Tasks to nurture empathetic behaviors in class
Mirrors & feeling the music
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Tasks to nurture empathetic behaviors in class
Participating in the International Day of Happiness (Creative Classroom action in 2017)
•share happiness by telling jokes, giving hugs and handing “happy faces” drawings
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Twinspac
e Tasks

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Twinspace Task 1: Comment and encourage
partners
Project Journal
Publication on the Project Journal
Partner Comments
Project: New vision of the world / Nueva visión del mundo

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Twinspace Task 2: Forum and Dialogue
Forum Twinspace

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Twinspace Task 3: Discover the other by playing
together
Web 2.0 Tool: Kahoot
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/295a956c-838d-4f9d-a2a2-6a7aa387f79b
Videoconference among partners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQzKvy3A3Zk
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Twinspace Task 4: Feelings & Comments
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Twinspace Task 5: Guess the feeling on a web
2.0 tool
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Twinspace Task 6: Netiquette Rules
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Stickies on the “Netiquette Board”
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IDiteT eTwinning Group
eTwinning Group:
INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE THROUGH
ETWINNING
The IDiteT group is intended to be a collaborative space where
eTwinners will meet and discuss the different techniques and
methods teachers-eTwinners can use to approach Intercultural
Dialogue and cultivate cultural understanding in their eTwinning
projects.
https://groups.etwinning.net/58881/home
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Resources
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Natalia Tzitzi, ntzitzi@sch.gr; nataliatzi949@gmail.com
Najoua Slatnia najouansl@gmail.com ; najouansl@yahoo.fr
Thank you for your attention