Friday 15 th
Cultural competence
Cem Can
On 15 th July, Cem Can (Kiitos project and
partner University, teaching for intercultural competence.
Turkey) led a workshop on Cultural Cem structured his presentation by
Competence. His objective with this answering several key questions on
workshop was to make us think about intercultural competence – “What is
and reflect on how to develop the my understanding of culture and
intercultural aware child: the interface intercultural
between “When
from Çukurova
teaching
language
and
teaching culture; teaching for social
pragmatic
and
competence
competence?”
how
children
and
and
do
developed awareness for diversity?”
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