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Intercultural Education and Learning Communities
From February 12, 2013 until February 25, 2013
On the upcoming date of February 25th, Casa Árabe has organized a conference titled "Intercultural Education and Learning Communities: Alliances, commitments and resistance in Andalusia’s schools" in Cordoba.
The conference will be led by María García-Cano Torrico, a professor from the University of Cordoba, and Esther Márquez Lepe, a professor from the University of Seville. It will be presented by Javier Rosón Lorente, a Casa Árabe researcher and analyst.
The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Casa Árabe Auditorium in Cordoba (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) with free entrance until the room’s capacity is full.
Within the framework of the research, development and innovation project for School, Community and Interculturalism titled “Study of the Intercultural and Inter-agent processes in cultural diversity at educational centers,” subsidized by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (National R+D+I Plan for 2011-2013), in which Casa Árabe participates as an Observer Promoting Entity (EPO), Professors María García-Cano Torrico and Esther Márquez Lepe will be presenting this recently published book and the study completed in Andalusia regarding the relations between interculturalism and educational experiences aimed at strengthening and promoting relations between schools and community. They will also discuss schools’ motivations, the problems which they must deal with, and the factors which make such experiences work better.
A professor of the Sociology Department at the University of Seville, with a doctorate from the University of Granada. Most notable among her main lines of research are multiculturalism, citizenship, intercultural education and attention towards diversity in educational spaces from a qualitative point of view.
A professor of the Education Department at the University of Córdoba, with a doctorate from the University of Granada, she worked on the topics of gender, migrations and occupational training policy in the nineties, as well as intercultural education and schools.
The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Casa Árabe Auditorium in Cordoba (at Calle Samuel de los Santos Gener, 9) with free entrance until the room’s capacity is full.
Within the framework of the research, development and innovation project for School, Community and Interculturalism titled “Study of the Intercultural and Inter-agent processes in cultural diversity at educational centers,” subsidized by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (National R+D+I Plan for 2011-2013), in which Casa Árabe participates as an Observer Promoting Entity (EPO), Professors María García-Cano Torrico and Esther Márquez Lepe will be presenting this recently published book and the study completed in Andalusia regarding the relations between interculturalism and educational experiences aimed at strengthening and promoting relations between schools and community. They will also discuss schools’ motivations, the problems which they must deal with, and the factors which make such experiences work better.
Esther Márquez Lepe
A professor of the Sociology Department at the University of Seville, with a doctorate from the University of Granada. Most notable among her main lines of research are multiculturalism, citizenship, intercultural education and attention towards diversity in educational spaces from a qualitative point of view.
María García-Cano Torrico
A professor of the Education Department at the University of Córdoba, with a doctorate from the University of Granada, she worked on the topics of gender, migrations and occupational training policy in the nineties, as well as intercultural education and schools.