Authors: | Drosos, Dimitrios Armenaka, Vasiliki Kyriakopoulos, Grigorios |
Issue Date: | 1-Oct-2020 |
Conference: | 14th Balkan Conference on Operational Research (Virtual BALCOR 2020) "Operational Research in the Era of Digital Transformation and Business Analytics", 30 September - 3 October 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece |
Book: | Book of Proceedings of the 14th Balkan Conference on Operational Research (Virtual BALCOR 2020) "Operational Research in the Era of Digital Transformation and Business Analytics" |
Keywords: | Intercultural education, Intercultural practices, Intercultural competence, Correlation coefficients |
Abstract: | Globalisation, technology advancement, the influx of people and the freer movement of people have caused considerable social stress and unrest. Specifically, such changes are key determinants to the foremost significant issues of inclusion, tolerance to the others and respect to the different. In this context, education is a vital pedagogical tool to build up the attitudes and the behaviour of the educates. However, such personal development of personalities has undergone fundamental changes as well, which have been certainly framed in intercultural education. Recently intercultural education has gained great emphasis, enactment and activity due to a number of reasons: advancements in digital technology, freer and increased mobility among people worldwide, as well as migration to European countries, being all critical viewpoints of conceptualizing globalization. The research outcomes signified those practices’ related to interculturalism and the necessity of applying them among educational communities. The surveyed educators’ denoted the need of changes and/or taught adaptations regarding the existing curricula, while significant statistical correlations between demographic data and three interculturality factors were also addressed. |
ISSN: | 978-618-85079-0-6 |
URL: | https://balcor2020.uom.gr/BALCOR_2020_Book_of_Proceedings.pdf |
URI: | https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/1838 |
Type: | Conference Paper |
Department: | Department of Business Administration |
School: | School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences |
Affiliation: | University of West Attica (UNIWA) |
Appears in Collections: | Book Chapter / Κεφάλαιο Βιβλίου |
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