Digital Action Plan – English

About Course

Welcome to the Digitalized material of the Social Club Action Plan for VET Trainers.

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Course Content

1. Culture and Who We Are
Understand culture as a dynamic system that shapes identity, behaviour, learning, and belonging, and reflect on how cultural background influences how we see ourselves and others in VET contexts.

2. What is Interculturality?
Understand interculturality as a set of skills, attitudes, and everyday practices that support fair interaction, communication, and cooperation in diverse learning and working environments, while developing awareness of power, norms, and inequality.

3. Inclusion, Intersectionality and Discrimination
Recognising how inclusion and exclusion operate at individual, group, and structural levels, and in understanding how overlapping identities and power relations can shape experiences of discrimination in education and society.

4. Understanding exclusion to build inclusion
Identify how difference can turn into inequality through stereotypes, bias, discomfort, and social distancing, and to develop practical strategies to move from awareness to everyday actions that promote inclusion and fairness.

5. Learning from all cultures
Experience interculturality as a learning resource by recognising what different cultures contribute, what they share, and how peer-to-peer exchange strengthens belonging, empathy, and cooperation in everyday learning environments.

Digital Action Plan – English

Digital Action Plan – English

About Course

Course Content

1. Culture and Who We Are
Understand culture as a dynamic system that shapes identity, behaviour, learning, and belonging, and reflect on how cultural background influences how we see ourselves and others in VET contexts.

1.1 What is culture?

1.2 Elements and layers of culture

1.3 Who we are: Identify and belonging

1.4 How do we make sense of others? From Categories to assumptions

2. What is Interculturality?
Understand interculturality as a set of skills, attitudes, and everyday practices that support fair interaction, communication, and cooperation in diverse learning and working environments, while developing awareness of power, norms, and inequality.

2.1. Living with many cultures

2.2. Embracing differences

2.3. Key Components of Intercultural Competence

2.4. Going one step further: The Anti-racist approach

3. Inclusion, Intersectionality and Discrimination
Recognising how inclusion and exclusion operate at individual, group, and structural levels, and in understanding how overlapping identities and power relations can shape experiences of discrimination in education and society.

3.1. Inclusion vs. Exclusion

3.2. Intersectionality: When identities overlap

3.3. Discrimination: From everyday acts to structural barriers

3.4. Emotions and Empathy: Feeling, understanding and acting

4. Understanding exclusion to build inclusion
Identify how difference can turn into inequality through stereotypes, bias, discomfort, and social distancing, and to develop practical strategies to move from awareness to everyday actions that promote inclusion and fairness.

4.1. Difference vs Inequality: No better or worse, just different

4.2. Judging by appearances: From stereotypes to bias

4.3. From discomfort to rejection

4.4. What can be done? From awareness to actions

5. Learning from all cultures
Experience interculturality as a learning resource by recognising what different cultures contribute, what they share, and how peer-to-peer exchange strengthens belonging, empathy, and cooperation in everyday learning environments.

5.1. Cultural Expression as a Learning Resource

5.2. What we have in common: Shared Human Needs Behind Cultural Forms

5.3. Learning through encounter: Listening to lived experience

6. Use of GenAI in Cultural Adaptation
Objective: Helping VET trainers understand the use and benefits of AI when learning about interculturality.

6.1. What is Generative AI

6.2. GenAI for Cultural Sensitivity Training

6.3. Multilingual support

6.4. Storytelling and personal narratives

6.5. Enhancing Classroom Activities

6.6. Ethical considerations

Digital Action Plan – English

About Course

Course Content

1. Culture and Who We Are Understand culture as a dynamic system that shapes identity, behaviour, learning, and belonging, and reflect on how cultural background influences how we see ourselves and others in VET contexts.

2. What is Interculturality? Understand interculturality as a set of skills, attitudes, and everyday practices that support fair interaction, communication, and cooperation in diverse learning and working environments, while developing awareness of power, norms, and inequality.

3. Inclusion, Intersectionality and Discrimination Recognising how inclusion and exclusion operate at individual, group, and structural levels, and in understanding how overlapping identities and power relations can shape experiences of discrimination in education and society.

4. Understanding exclusion to build inclusion Identify how difference can turn into inequality through stereotypes, bias, discomfort, and social distancing, and to develop practical strategies to move from awareness to everyday actions that promote inclusion and fairness.

5. Learning from all cultures Experience interculturality as a learning resource by recognising what different cultures contribute, what they share, and how peer-to-peer exchange strengthens belonging, empathy, and cooperation in everyday learning environments.

6. Use of GenAI in Cultural Adaptation Objective: Helping VET trainers understand the use and benefits of AI when learning about interculturality.

1. Culture and Who We Are
Understand culture as a dynamic system that shapes identity, behaviour, learning, and belonging, and reflect on how cultural background influences how we see ourselves and others in VET contexts.

2. What is Interculturality?
Understand interculturality as a set of skills, attitudes, and everyday practices that support fair interaction, communication, and cooperation in diverse learning and working environments, while developing awareness of power, norms, and inequality.

3. Inclusion, Intersectionality and Discrimination
Recognising how inclusion and exclusion operate at individual, group, and structural levels, and in understanding how overlapping identities and power relations can shape experiences of discrimination in education and society.

4. Understanding exclusion to build inclusion
Identify how difference can turn into inequality through stereotypes, bias, discomfort, and social distancing, and to develop practical strategies to move from awareness to everyday actions that promote inclusion and fairness.

5. Learning from all cultures
Experience interculturality as a learning resource by recognising what different cultures contribute, what they share, and how peer-to-peer exchange strengthens belonging, empathy, and cooperation in everyday learning environments.

6. Use of GenAI in Cultural Adaptation
Objective: Helping VET trainers understand the use and benefits of AI when learning about interculturality.