Iceland - The national curriculum
Fundamental Pillars
Literacy
Sustainability
Health and Welfare
Democracy and Human Rights
Equality
Creativity
Cross-cutting objectives
Citizen education
DiversityDemocracy
Creativity/InnovationCritical Thinking
XXX- Culturalism
MulticulturalismInterculturalism
PluriculturalismEspecially nowadays, individuals are pluricultural in themselves
Our children: Bi/pluri- cultural
“El don de la palabra” José García Molina
So… How to use
diversity in our classrooms??
Democracy
Methodologies:
Authoritarian
Democratic
Libertarian
Educational spaces
Teacher role: to facilitate the learning process
Using their interests to introduce new knowledge
Let them discover by themselves what do they want to learn
Being an active part of your society - democracy - being a part of the space
Critical Thinking
Looking into the world- willing to improve it and to create your own opinion.
Amount of accesible information nowadays Vs. “Icelandic guest”
For small children: motivate questioning + create challenges
what do they want to learn?not too easy, not to difficult… just CHALLENGING!
Let´s play!
“All children are born artist, the difficult thing is to continue
being an artist when you grow up” P. Picasso