SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 19 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The IES Magallanes, located in the town of San Isidro, in Granadilla de Abona, has launched training for its entire educational community on the participatory intercultural approach of Juntas In the same direction, the insular strategy for the promotion of intercultural coexistence, Promoted by the Cabildo de Tenerife and the University of La Laguna (ULL) through its General Foundation and the Immigration Observatory of Tenerife (OBITen).
It is a series of workshops that offer tools to promote intercultural dialogue, good coexistence in diversity and social cohesion, applying a participatory intercultural approach, contemplating a comprehensive gender perspective and an approach based on Human Rights, also contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
In this way, not only students and teachers, but also the mothers, fathers and staff of IES Magallanes, have this learning available to them to increase knowledge and positive appreciation of the benefits that cultural diversity brings to development.
For Elizabeth López Cartero, a mother who is a member of the AMPA, “that we are all involved in learning is important, especially when it comes to something like the cultural diversity that brings us so much. If in class it is addressed like this, but later at home it is treated as something bad due to ignorance, it will cost more to move forward”.
This training action, given to the entire community of this educational center, is part of the implementation of ‘Tenerife Lives Diversity’ in Granadilla de Abona, where Juntas En la misma dirección also accompanies the other three HEIs in the municipality of the hand of this Strategic Framework for intercultural coexistence that the island has had since February 2019, the date on which it was unanimously approved in the Plenary of the Island Council.
Specifically, Tenerife lives Diversity is a useful tool for managing cultural diversity, promoting interculturality and improving social development, applied in a participatory manner by Juntas En la misma dirección to create spaces for coexistence in which all people are recognized and contribute on equal terms to the social, economic and cultural progress of Tenerife.
For the Councilor for Employment, Socioeconomic Development and External Action of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Carmen Luz Baso Lorenzo, “it is essential to work hand in hand with educational centers so that the next generations also internalize that interculturality is something that benefits us; not counting With them, we cannot expect progress to be made in the elimination of prejudices, which in no way contribute to a coexistence that benefits a society as culturally diverse as Tenerife”.
In this line, the rector of the ULL, Rosa María Aguilar Chinea, pointed out that “in order to devise new solutions to the challenges that society poses to us every day, it is essential to invest to generate knowledge and support its transfer.” “If the value of cultural diversity in education is not addressed, it will be difficult for us to shape a future time made up of egalitarian and inclusive communities, as proposed by the 2030 Agenda,” she added.
