Available courses

Course 1: Introduction to the Concepts of Culture and Interculturality

The aim of this course is to familiarize the participants with the concepts of culture and interculturality. Acknowledging the difficulty to pin down a definition of “culture” in terms of social sciences and humanities, it will present the concepts with reference to the complexities they entail, the affordances they contain and the challenges they raise. The course will specifically focus on the essentialist, neo-essentialist and non-essentialist views of culture, outlining and explaining their dispositions and acts. It will continue with a discussion of interculturality and intercultural encounters, engaging you with narratives, film excerpts and other visual material to explore the concepts at hand. 

By the end of the course, you are expected to identify and differentiate between different views of culture and interculturality, and to explore ways to relate them to your own research contexts. 

Time Commitment: There are no deadlines in the course and you can work through the material at your own pace, but you should expect to spend roughly 12 hours on the readings, videos and tasks.

Prerequisites: No action is required prior to the course.

Teacher: Dilek İnal

Course 2: Models of Interculturality

This course aims at introducing some current models of interculturality. After a brief discussion on the definitions of the concepts of interculturality, intercultural competence, cross-cultural and intercultural communication, participants will engage in identifying the main characteristics of some of the most influential models of interculturality. Finally, two case studies will exemplify how models of interculturality may be dealt with in language education research.

Time Commitment: There are no deadlines in the course and you can work through the material at your own pace, but you should expect to spend roughly 10 hours on the readings, videos and tasks.

Prerequisites: Participants should complete Course 1 to start this course.

Course 3: Recent Trends in Research Methodologies on Interculturality

 This course has been designed to provide participants with an understanding and know-how of researching interculturality. In this context, the course will first contextualize interculturality research historically through the exploration of social research in terms of its philosophical foundations and epistemological paradigms. The course will then put the complex interplay between language education and interculturality in perspective and focus on the main principles and tenets of how to research interculturality. 

Time Commitment: There are no deadlines in the course and you can work through the material at your own pace, but you should expect to spend roughly 12 hours on the readings, videos and tasks.

Prerequisites: Participants should complete Course 1 to start this course.

Teacher: Yasemin Oral

Course 4: Changing Paradigms in Approaching Culture in the Language Classroom

This course aims at exploring the changing paradigms in how culture may be explored in the language classroom. It begins by looking at traditional approaches to teaching language and culture in the foreign language classroom so as to afterwards delve into more current approaches to intercultural education in language teaching, namely Intercultural education (with examples from a Global Englishes and English language teaching [ELT] perspective). Next, it stresses the importance of how Intercultural awareness may be applied to language learning and connecting it with the notions of Intercultural/Global Citizenship Citizenship Education and its importance in ELT.

Time Commitment: There are no deadlines in the course and you can work through the material at your own pace, but you should expect to spend roughly 10 hours on the readings, videos and tasks.

Prerequisites: Participants should complete Course 2 to start this course.

PROGRAMA DE ESTUDOS EM LINHA - ESCOLA DE VERÃO

The Summer School aimed to equip participating ECRs with the knowledge and skills to carry out research studies that are both sensitive and responsive to the inherent diversity and underlying interculturality through enhanced theoretical input, case studies, and problem- and research-oriented tasks that comprise different issues from the field of interculturality and are connected to language education research.

ONLINE STUDY PROGRAM - SUMMER SCHOOL

The Summer School aimed to equip participating ECRs with the knowledge and skills to carry out research studies that are both sensitive and responsive to the inherent diversity and underlying interculturality through enhanced theoretical input, case studies, and problem- and research-oriented tasks that comprise different issues from the field of interculturality and are connected to language education research.

ONLINE-STUDIENPROGRAMM - SOMMERSCHULE

The Summer School aimed to equip participating ECRs with the knowledge and skills to carry out research studies that are both sensitive and responsive to the inherent diversity and underlying interculturality through enhanced theoretical input, case studies, and problem- and research-oriented tasks that comprise different issues from the field of interculturality and are connected to language education research.

ÇEVRİMİÇİ EĞİTİM PROGRAMI - YAZ OKULU

The Summer School aimed to equip participating ECRs with the knowledge and skills to carry out research studies that are both sensitive and responsive to the inherent diversity and underlying interculturality through enhanced theoretical input, case studies, and problem- and research-oriented tasks that comprise different issues from the field of interculturality and are connected to language education research.

Teacher: Yasemin Oral

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