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Intercultural Learning & Non- Formal Education Gurgen Balasanyan Gurgen Balasanyan

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Page 1: Intercultural Learning & Non-Formal Education Gurgen Balasanyan

Intercultural Learning & Non-Formal Education

Gurgen BalasanyanGurgen Balasanyan

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Aim

• What it takes to be an “interculturally competent individual” and how can the profile be developed in a classroom and non-classroom atmosphere.

Objectives:• What is intercultural learning and how valid it is for

Armenian reality;• Can it be patterned in the frame of non-formal

education.

• Energiser: 60 seconds: how much is it?

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Value• Methodology:- analysis, synthesis, contrastive study, descriptive

and depictive method, contextual analysis and experiential data collection

• Theoretical Value:- Parallels of Formal & Non-Formal Education

• Practical Value and Validity: - Prioritization of Non-Formal Education worldwide

yet its underestimation in Armenia;

- Globalization and increased opportunities/threats for intercultural communication.

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Culture

• shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize a community or a set of people;

• Primitively: Software - culture is what people say and think; what they do and what is done to them.

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Dimensions of Culture

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Intercultural Communication

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Stages of Intercultural Learning

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Intercultural Learning Disciplines• look at their own culture from the point of view of

their own culture;

• be aware of how their culture is seen from outside, by other countries or cultures;

• understand or see the target culture from its own perspective;

• be aware of how they see the target culture.

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Culture Shock

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EducationFig. 6 Formal Education Non-Formal Education

Learning

methods

The dominance of the vertical relationship

between the possessor of the knowledge and the

receiver.

Interactive relationship between the learners

and the environment surrounding them.

“Learning by doing”.

Content Mostly defined by educational institutions or

government.

Chosen by the learner. No definition except

concrete experience acquisition.

Orientation Fact oriented Process oriented

Control External/hierarchical Internal/democratic

Certification Usually provided at the end of the course as a

document certifying the successful completion

of the subject.

No mandatory certification; however, a

certifying document may be provided that can

later be presented to a formal educational

institution or attached to the CV.

Length Provided with layers: primary, secondary, higher

education, etc.

Lifelong learning process

Strong Points Almost always free and systematized /for more

information refer to the “Millennium

Development Goals” of the UN, Goal 2/.

Accessible to all with no age limitations and

boundaries; inclusive and entertaining.

Weak Points Not adapted to meet personal needs and

interests, at least in primary or secondary

education; monotonous to people, especially that

of young age; not interactive enough.

Absence of formal recognition; difficult to

assess – it is generally achieved by means of

internal evaluations.

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Non-Formal Education Methodology Selection

• Aims and Objectives• Target Group• Environment, Space and Time • Resources, Framework• Previous Evaluation, Experience• Transfer; Participant Experience

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NFE Tools

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Prioritization of NFE for Intercultural Learning

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Thank You!

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