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06/28/2021 | Campus-Meldung

Students take part in international congress

"Intercultural Education in an Age of Information and Disinformation" is this year's conference theme of the International Association for Intercultural Education (IAIE) in Tel Aviv, Israel, hosted by Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and Arts, June 27-30, 2021. Key stakeholders will include the following students:

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Group 2, Educational Online Initiatives: Claudine Tzipora Toren (Kibbutzim College, Israel); Enikö Nagy (Eszterházy Károly University, Hungary); Mirtill André (Eszterházy Károly University, Hungary); Orel Kahana (Ono College, Israel); Anna Klesse (University of Kassel).
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Group 3, Online Collaborative Learning: Aviv Tzinori (Kibbutzim College, Israel); Jan-Hendrick Pfleging (University of Kassel); Rumeysa Melisa Erdogan (University of Kassel); Elyasaf Yaakov (Kibbutzim College, Israel).
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Group 9, Educational Online Initiatives: Anna Tóth (Eszterházy Károly University, Hungary); Janosch Powierski (University of Kassel). Maya Maimon (Kibbutzim College, Israel); Olivér Gergencsik (Eszterházy Károly University, Hungary); Not in picture: Mariana Avni (Ono College, Israel)

At the IAIE Congress, more than 300 presentations from researchers from 40 countries will be presented and discussed on the topic of intercultural education. The overall aim is to present relevant examples from research and practice on global respect and opportunities for intercultural and transcultural collaboration in peace education, gender, language awareness, inclusion, interreligious education, intercultural learning, ecohumanism and sustainability using digital media. Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner will give a keynote presentation on three empirical projects on the discovery of intangible cultural assets in life stories (ABCS).

The digitization projects "Research in International Online Learning" and "Online Educational Initiatives"taking place in the summer semester 2021 within the framework of the CoGI and CoGI+H (Cooperation Germany Israel +Hungary) collaborations will be presented at the congress under the moderation of Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner, Dr. Madeleine Olson, Wiebke Ost and Marcel Foerster best practice examples from university teaching in front of the international team of researchers as well as lecturers.

The participating students worked in highly diverse groups in two project seminars across borders, countries and cultures for one semester on innovative digital solutions for education. They will now find their stage at the IAIE Congress in the symposium "Intercultural Student Symposium: Collaborative International Online Projects: Engagement, Language and Culture" and will present their intercultural digital websites and wikis created in the respective project seminars there for the first time in an academic setting.

The cooperation of the teams of students from diverse backgrounds was overshadowed this year by the recent events in Israel. For example, some Kassel students witnessed how Zoom windows had to be closed because their group partners, who were only four hours away by plane, experienced a threatening crisis and had to go to shelters. For this reason, the presentation of the student projects is of significant relevance, as the Israeli students in particular had to create their websites and wikis under very difficult conditions. At the same time, the projects not only show that cooperation between students of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds is possible and necessary, but also brings high added value for all involved.

The chair of the IAIE Congress Organizing Team from Kibbutzim College of Education Technology and Arts, Dr. Miri Shonfeld, has maintained an intensive and active cooperation with Prof. Dr. Claudia Finkbeiner and her team from the Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Research & Intercultural Communication of FB2 since 2013. More than 600 students from Israel, Germany and Hungary have participated in the international digital cooperation seminars so far.

Registration for the conference is still possible at: https://iaie.smkb.ac.il/.

For more information on the Kassel University Team's digitization project, please visit https://www.researchgate.net/project/International-Online-Cooperation-An-Academic-Cyberspace-Community.