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Critical Cultural Awareness in Migration societies

Critical Cultural Awareness in Migration societies

Early Childhood Education and Care
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Description

This study module aims at enhancing cultural awareness as a key skill in an Early Childhood setting. Globalization has, in the last decades, transformed national and local communities into migrant societies. Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is an institution where children, guardians, parents, and staff from various backgrounds and with multiple affiliations come together. This gives ECEC a key role in creating inclusion and a sense of belonging in dynamic communities influenced by local and global concerns. The course will enrich students’ knowledge and skills for leading and guiding processes of creating a sense of belonging in children’s groups, cooperating with a diverse group of parents/guardians. Finding practical, enjoyable, and efficient ways of working as professional staff requires a high level of intercultural competence.

Study format
Blended
Application period
18 December 2023 – 29 January 2024
Study period
20 March – 30 May 2024
Credits
6 ECTS
Pace
0%
Hosting university
University of Stavanger
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Learning outcomes

Knowledge

After completing the course, the candidate should have advanced knowledge of: - the concepts of diversity, inclusion and belonging and early childhood education practices associated with them. - the complexity of migrant societies with multifaceted identities and belongings. - how ECEC practices and material equipment such as books, toys and art can promote inclusion and counteract hegemony - ow to analyze children cultures and develop sociological theory of interethnic play. - the role of kindergarten as a meeting place for children, guardians, parents, and staff, and how to create belonging for all involved.

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Skills

After completing the course, the student should be able to - give an account of, analyze, and translate theory of belonging into practice. - evelop theory and reflect on power and privileges. - create communities in a diverse ECEC that enables equity, solidarity, and freedom. - discern power structures within languages and between language users. - develop the ECEC as an arena in which belonging to the local community is created for the whole family.

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General competence

After completing the course, the student should be able to - apply their research-based knowledge regarding culture, play and belonging to relevant practical situations. - develop and scientifically evaluate inclusive practices in encounters with children, parents and colleagues. - detect, analyze, and counteract discriminatory practices. - create brave and safe spaces to enable authentic dialogues. - have a resource-oriented approach towards diversity.

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This study module aims at enhancing cultural awareness as a key skill in Early Childhood setting.

Globalization has the last decades turned national and local communities into migrant societies. ECEC is an institution in which children, guardians, parents, and staff from various backgrounds and with multiple belongings meet. This gives ECEC a key role in creating inclusion and belonging in dynamic communities influenced by local and global concerns.

The course will enrich students’ knowledge and skills for leading and guiding processes of creating belonging in children’s groups, cooperating with a diverse group of parents/guardians, finding practical, enjoyable, and efficient ways of working as professional staff requires high level of intercultural competence.

Hosting university

University of Stavanger

University of Stavanger