Teacher education: faculty perspectives for the construction of intercultural citizenship

Abstract

We propose to reflect on the possibilities of an education guided by the principles of interculturalism, towards the construction of an active citizenship, critical and participatory. To do so, we discus the contributions of two surveys conducted by researchers, affiliated with the Grupo de Investigación en Educación Intercultural (GREDI - University of Barcelona). The criteria guiding the selection of these works were guided by: providing a privileged focus on teacher education for intercultural citizenship; development of a training program for intercultural citizenship; execution context of the research characterized by very multicultural and timeliness of work. In addition to the strategies devoted to data collection in educational research, often the research produced under the present proposals GREDI translated into intervention programs, projects and actions that are monitored, evaluated, analyzed and problematized as advocated in the principles of methodology as reference. Thus, our goal is focused on understanding how to trigger the process of building citizenship intercultural educational practices proposed by researchers in their investigations.