Share Paper: Intercultural Dialogic eLearning: A Tool for Fostering Shared Understanding and Sustainable Competence Development in Practices of Inclusion

  1. Elsebeth Korsgaard Sorensen, Aalborg University, Dept. of Learning and Philosophy, Denmark
  2. Hanne Voldborg Andersen, Aalborg University, Dept. of Learning and Philosophy, Denmark
  3. Henrik Grum, Aalborg University, Dept. of Learning and Philosophy, Denmark
Tuesday, June 25 10:00-10:30 AM Sidney

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is theoretically to explore and describe the value of Intercultural Dialogical eLearning as a tool for fostering a shared understanding and sustainable competence development in practices of inclusion. For the Danish education system it appears a major challenge that the government has passed a legislation of inclusion. The new law changes the paradigms of special needs education and moves 33.000 children from the special needs education system to the ordinary primary and secondary school system (Ministeriet for Børn og Undervisning, 2011. How can schools in a short time bring further education to their employees and ...