School activities promoting interculturalism

Intercultural learning stimulates students’ interest in the lives of others based on shared experience, interaction, cooperation and respect between different cultural groups.

Intercultural learning helps students avoid conflict.

Intercultural learning supports students to develop the skills, knowledge, and capabilities to avoid people they see as different from themselves.

Involving outside visitors from different cultural backgrounds in primary school students’ activities in the classroom helps to reduce those students’ cultural stereotypes and prejudices.

Role plays and simulations help students to experience what it is like to be different, to be criticized, or to be criticised or excluded.

Analysing texts, films, and plays cannot effectively be used to build knowledge and understanding of people from diverse cultural backgrounds.