Intercultural education

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Intercultural education

• Possibility to Use INTER Guide in the Netherlands

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• INTER Guide
• Dutch schools
• Is INTER Guide useful in NL?

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INTER Guide

• Focus on the module homogeneity and diversity
• Why diversity?
• Different views give a better learning experience
• Differences exist anyway
• Strategies to cope with differences

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Dutch Schools

• Very differentiated

• Strong Segregation tendency

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Differentiationin Dutch education

• test at the age of 12
• VMBO, HAVO, VWO
• Denominational schools 

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Dutch minorities

• Turks gastarbeiders (labour migrants)
• Moroccans
• Very low educated
• Surinamese
• Antilleans from former colonies
• Arubans

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Segregation

• In neighbourhoods

• In schools

• Zwarte scholen Black schools
• under 18, 65 is black (one parent not dutch)
• Witte vlucht, white flight
• in the lower levels
• Islamic elementary schools
• Turkish, Moroccan schools

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INTER Guide in the Netherlands?

• There is a need in NL
• Not working intercultural educational policy
• Growing tension between cultures
• Growing segregation
• But differentiation
• School system makes implementation complicated