Addressing Educational Needs of Teachers in the EU for Inclusive Education in a Context of Diversity (INNO4DIV): Volume 3 - Part 1: Assessment guidelines for teacher education and training practices on intercultural and democratic competence development.

Abstract

In spite of policy impetus, research shows that teachers struggle to address increasing diversity in classrooms, among others, due to lack of competences to deal with it. The acquisition of Intercultural Competence (IC), which could be defined as the ability to mobilise and deploy relevant attitudes, skills, knowledge and values in order to interact effectively and appropriately in different intercultural situations, is a crucial need for teachers to deal with diversity and to be successful in their teaching. In this context, in 2019 JRC launched INNO4DIV project with aim to support polices in field of IC of teachers, through analysis of literature and innovative good practices which have successfully addressed existing barriers for teachers' IC development. In this context, it was necessary to identify innovative practices for overcoming barriers in development of intercultural and democratic competences (IDC) of teachers. Given wealth and variety of educational practices, and in order to preserve scientific rigour of identification process, this report offers rationale and description of selection criteria that have been developed according to conceptual framework of project, Volume 1. Teachers' Intercultural Competence: Working definition and implications for teacher education. Similarly, process for case identification and selection is also described. Following a brief explanation of sources for selection of cases (Section 2), report focuses on establishing selection criteria, which are divided into generic and specific criteria (Section 3). The generic criteria apply to all cases. The specific criteria, however, relate to scope of each specific Key Enabling Component (KEC), and are most direct reference to particular features of cases. Finally, document contains an elaborate protocol for case selection that will lead to final list of selected cases.