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Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Education: Experiences in Melilla
From March 04, 2014 until March 25, 2014
Book presentationMarch 18, 2014 - MADRID
The goal of this publication is to study cultural diversity and intercultural education in a specific location; Melilla, but with broader connotations.
Various specialists provide their analysis, experiences and research in a compilation of texts which share in common that they express an appreciation for the paradigm of interculturalism, compared with other models for managing diversity, such as assimilationism or multiculturalism.
Melilla forms a living laboratory in which different cultures mix and interact, in which the intercultural model is defended as a strategic goal by the local public authorities, with a view to preserving and consolidating the people’s co-existence, built on a foundation of equal rights among culturally diverse people and the belief that cultural diversity is always an asset for societies, never a hindrance.
This book was published by GEEPP Ediciones and SATE-STEs Melilla, with the cooperation of the Institute of Cultures of the Autonomous City of Melilla.
The event will be taking place on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the Casa Árabe Auditorium in Madrid (at Calle Alcalá, 62). Taking part in the event are Fadela Mohatar Maanan, President of the Executive Committee of Melilla’s Institute of Cultures; Francisco López Rupérez, President of the State School Board; Soledad Gallego-Díaz, a journalist, and José Luis López Belmonte, a member of the State School Board for STEs-Intersindical. Presented by Eduardo López Busquets, the General Director of Casa Árabe.
Fadela Mohatar Maanan
The President of the Executive Committee of Melilla’s Institute of Cultures, she is a journalist by profession, and the Assistant Director of the Department of Women’s Affairs of the Autonomous City of Melilla.
Francisco López Rupérez
The President of the State School Board, he is the author of a dozen books and more than one hundred publications in specialized journals from both Spain and abroad. He has been the Director General of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), Secretary General of Education and Professional Training in that Ministry, and the President of the Madrid School Board. He has held the position of Educational Advisor in Spain’s Permanent Delegations to the OECD and before, UNESCO.
Soledad Gallego-Díaz
Ms. Gallego-Díaz has been the Assistant Director of the El País newspaper. Vice-President of the Spanish section of the Reporters Without Borders, she has earned the Francisco Cerecedo Journalism Award, the Salvador de Madariaga Award, the Rodríguez Santamaría Award given by the Madrid Press Association and the Medal for Promoting Values of Equality.
José Luis López Belmonte
A member of the State School Board for STEs-Intersindical in representation of the faculty, López Belmonte was the coordinator of the publication “Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Education.” He has also coordinated other publications, such as “Building Through Diversity,” “Learning Spanish for Tamazight-language Students,” Intercultural Experiences in Melilla” and “Intercultural Classrooms I and II.”
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