Social policy and intercultural education

Education and education policy as social determinants of health.

Education is a strong predictor of long-term health and quality of life [1]. At least one investigator [2] has argued that education causes health, but the pathways through which it leads to better health and longer life expectancy are not yet clearly understood. What is clear is that health, human development and well-being are dynamic processes that are closely related to socioeconomic status...

ICT, Enterprise Education and Intercultural Learning

Little attention has been paid to the role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in enabling schools to work together in joint enterprise partnerships. This article reports on a school-based enterprise initiative which involved both primary and secondary school teachers working across an international frontier. The main findings of this research show that when ICT was used to link schoo...

Gender and Education: A Review of Issues for Social Policy

Colonial Differences in Intercultural Education: On Interculturality in the Andes and the Decolonization of Intercultural Dialogue

Co This article pushes for the possibility of alternative ways of thinking about the concept of interculturality depending on where and by whom it is being articulated (the geopolitics and body politic of knowledge). To illustrate this, the focus is shifted away from the policies of the European Union and UNESCO to the Andean region of Latin America where the notion of interculturalidad is not ...

AddizionarioPLUS: a Creative Approach to Linguistic and Intercultural Education

This paper describes AddizionarioPLUS, the updated and extended version of Addizionario. Addizionario – a hypermedia linguistic laboratory in which children being from 5 to 12 years old can study Italian as their native or second language at various levels of difficulty and from different points of view – was developed by the Institute for Computational Linguistics of the National Research Coun...