Reunion Island: Inclusion & Diversity in the Classroom - Teaching Empathy, Mindfulness & Critical Thinking - Erasmus Courses Croatia

Reunion Island: Inclusion & Diversity in the Classroom – Teaching Empathy, Mindfulness & Critical Thinking

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Based on 410 reviews

Annika Lindblom Lans

2024-10-08

This is an excellent course to learn more about your reactions in situations of stress and pressure. Our teacher Dario is a warm and engaged guide to make you feel better about yorself and your work Split is a very beautiful city and have fantastic environments that helps you to become more mindful. The week has provided lots of laughter whith the other participants and all the teachers! Thank you Croathia and especially Dario for this experience!

Alexandra Gustafsson

2024-10-06

The Mindfulness/mental health course was really good. Our course leader Dario was fantastic and well educated. Got a lot of tools to use at home. Yoga-teacher Nikola was so pleasant and encouraging. Good organisation and loads of courses in different places. I hope I get the opportunity to attend another.

Tea Aavik

2024-10-06

Väga huvitav kursus oli ja suurepärased õpetajad!

Josefa Ortiz

2024-09-16

It’s been a great experience for me and my classmate, we made lots of friends and learnt a few good tools that we can use in our lessons. The teachers were great and we had a really good time there. Highly recommended.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, where cultures meet and live in harmony, is the perfect setting for our brand new course. We look at migration and culture clash as relevant issues shaping education today. Teachers face new challenges in the school system that is often ill-equipped to integrate students from other cultures as well as students with special needs.

This course promotes intercultural education by modelling empathy in a mindful classroom. We will look into the thought process and seek gratitude in living in the present. The concept of ‘reaction vs response’ will be presented to promote a friendlier working environment and reduce bullying. Open-mindnedness will be mirrored in our study of critical thinking and the need for better conversation.

The course also looks at soft skills development in the classroom. Reinforcing collaboration and teamwork is the cornerstone of promoting true inclusion and recognizing integration of versatility & special needs. By promoting and celebrating cultural diversity in our schools, we make an important step towards bringing social change. The course will be discussing challenges, best practices as well as promoting mindful values toward proper inclusion.