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LOCATION: Malaga

Due to the recent rapidly expanding cultural diversity by the growing increase in the number of immigrants and refugees into education systems in all Europe, school systems are facing strong challenges of multicultural students entering or presently within their school system. The objective of this course is resolving those challenges by increasing the teachers’ awareness of cultural diversity, detecting the needs of the present educational systems when dealing with cultural diversity in schools, developing methods and materials teaching migrant education programs of instruction, concerning the students’ cultural background and adapting lessons to these students’ specific needs, gaining practical ideas on how to apply different communication strategies in different cross-cultural contexts, exploring solutions to the challenges of working with migrants and refugees, and developing a plan for integrating intercultural training into your institutions and classrooms.