CULTURAL OF THE DIVERSITY AND SCHOOL HUM246

Description

This multidisciplinary group of the Department of School Organization and Didactics works closely with a number of different universities both in Spain and abroad. Diversity culture and school research group is working on Roma Project Educative Project, a public school project with the following aims: educative equity, learning competence is in each and every person, social knowledge construction through research-based projects, cooperative projects in heterogeneous groups, classrooms as living and learning communities (democracy in classrooms), and diversity as a value in itself, not a problem.

Research Topics

The Roma Project, values education project.
Teachers training and Cooperative Formative Action Research.
Intercultural education.
Quality of life and educating cities. Education of values.
University and cultural diversity.
Construction of the curriculum through research projects.

Scientific-Technical Services

The study and development of programs to promote inclusion in schools and in society.
Teachers training (all levels) in research- based projects methodology.
Guides to museums adapted for the impaired.
Assessment of social and educational inclusion.
Collaboration with non-profit organizations (NGOs), associations of parents of children with problems, and discriminated groups towards social inclusion and promotion of the diversity culture.