SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 18 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The IES Guaza (Arona), with some thirty nationalities among its students, has joined the strategic framework for intercultural coexistence ‘Tenerife lives Diversity’, which adapts to the reality of the place where it is applied to create spaces for coexistence in the that all people are recognized and contribute on equal terms to their own development.
Specifically, this program constitutes a methodological guide that serves to transcend multiculturalism to interculturality, with the aim of building an inclusive and developed society from an economic and social perspective.
To this end, more than 300 culturally diverse people participated in its preparation, as well as the experience acquired during the thirteen years of experience of ‘Together in the same direction’, the island strategy for diversity management cultural, launched by the Cabildo de Tenerife and the University of La Laguna (ULL).
This strategic framework, which has been approved by the plenary session of the Cabildo as a reference plan for the management of cultural diversity in Tenerife, translates in the case of IES Guaza into strengthening the recognition of the value of cultural diversity in the classrooms through of the institute’s Newfoundland youth association.
In this way, the center is the first entity in Arona to adhere to ‘Tenerife lives Diversity’ and it does so through its own students, who will carry out the actions to implement this project among the educational community of their institute, with the accompaniment of ‘Juntas En la misma dirección’, contains a note from the Cabildo de Tenerife.
For this, the students of 2nd, 3rd and 4th ESO that are part of this association have begun with the realization of several participatory intercultural approach workshops to learn about resources that promote intercultural dialogue, good coexistence in diversity and social cohesion. , contemplating the integral perspective of gender and the approach based on Human Rights, also contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
For one of the IES Guaza professors, Cristina Hernández Mesa, “it is necessary to promote interculturality among our students, always with respect and tolerance, promoting dynamics that favor the inclusion of each and every one of the nationalities.”
With the activities that will be carried out, thanks to ‘Juntas En la misma dirección’, “we intend to create environments that favor good coexistence, social cohesion between the different students, having them as protagonists”, he continues.
MEET OTHER CLASSES AND TALK WITH OTHER STUDENTS
Miguel de La Paz Ramos, a 3rd year ESO student at IES Guaza, points out that he is “interested in knowing what it feels like to be a teacher in a class or someone who gives a talk to a group” and also to know his “skills to speak in public” and if it is something to which you can dedicate yourself.
“What I liked the most was that I was able to get to know other classes, talk to other students and get to know different opinions, in addition to being able to help explain the activity,” he says.
With this, this Arona institute joins the more than 1,400 people from the educational community of Tenerife who have already received some of the training to promote interculturality offered by ‘Together in the same direction’.
Thus, it becomes part of ‘Tenerife Lives Diversity’, which is already being developed in Adeje, Buenavista del Norte and Granadilla de Abona, as well as at IES El Médano and CEIP Salamanca, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The Councilor for Employment, Socioeconomic Development and External Action of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Carmen Luz Baso Lorenzo, qualifies ‘Tenerife lives Diversity’ as “an opportunity to practice intercultural matters and in the case of the educational system, this framework allows addressing a teaching in which coexistence is the protagonist, because for education to be inclusive we must make people live the value of cultural diversity”.
A point of view shared by the former director of the ULL, Rosa María Aguilar Chinea, who adds that “these workshops not only have a direct impact on achieving the quality education proposed in the United Nations 2030 Agenda, but also contribute to other objectives for the reduction of inequalities, the creation of sustainable communities or the development of peace, justice and solid institutions, because if the value of cultural diversity in education is not addressed, it will be difficult to build inclusive societies”.
