Tendencias Pedagógicas (Jan 2017)

Learning styles and intercultural education at school

  • Juan José Leiva Olivencia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.15366/tp2017.29.009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 0
pp. 211 – 228

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In recent decades there has been a profuse literature on intercultural pedagogy and the phenomenon of cultural diversity in formal educational contexts. Now, aside from studies devoted to the analysis of the concept of interculturality construct, just there has been scientific papers about the role played by immigrant students learning styles, and, where appropriate, those learning styles are mediated and modulated by the setting of educational contexts where interculturalism has been implemented through specific programseducational units or specific actions. This is the purpose of this article, provide a set of educational insights to address conceptual linkages between learning styles and intercultural education at school.

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