Intercultural education

Possibility to Use INTER Guide in the Netherlands

–INTER Guide

–Dutch schools

–Is INTER Guide useful in NL?

INTER Guide

• Focus on the module homogeneity and diversity

• Why diversity?– Different views give a better learning

experience– Differences exist anyway– Strategies to cope with differences

Dutch Schools

• Very differentiated • Strong Segregation tendency

Differentiationin Dutch education

• test at the age of 12

• VMBO, HAVO, VWO

• Denominational schools 

Dutch minorities

• Turks gastarbeiders (labour migrants)

• Moroccans• Very low educated

• Surinamese

• Antilleans from former colonies

• Arubans

Segregation

• In neighbourhoods • In schools

„Zwarte scholen“ Black schoolsunder 18, 65% is black (one parent not dutch)“Witte vlucht”, white flightin the lower levelsIslamic elementary schoolsTurkish, Moroccan schools

INTER Guide in the Netherlands?

– There is a need in NL• Not working intercultural educational policy

• Growing tension between cultures

• Growing segregation

– But differentiation• School system makes implementation complicated