The podcast of “Absolutely intercultural”
is the first podcast in the world to deal with intercultural issues, it is
looking at all intercultural aspects of human intercultural communication. For
example, we will be hearing from students on foreign work placements, asking
how teachers can make use of intercultural exercises and simulations in their classroom
and sharing with us any intercultural gossip we come across.
We could obtain many different cultures
from each part of the “intercultural”, they have absolutely reciprocal,
absolutely inexperienced, absolutely open-minded, absolutely entrepreneurial
and so on. For example, in the part of absolutely reciprocal, a girl named
Elena from Spain, where the majority of people are Christians. Through her
international volunteer work she has developed an intercultural sensitivity and
awareness of different traditions and ways of thinking. She tells us how she
embarked on this intercultural learning journey thanks to her parents, who
encouraged her to get involved in a volunteering project at high school. Later
she collaborated in an association in the South of Spain whose aim it is to
support children and young homeless and unprotected migrants from the Northern
and Sub Saharan Africa. Also, a couple of years ago she was nominated to
participate in a work camp in the region of Kurdistan, in South Eastern Turkey.
She is convinced that volunteering is a great recipe for reciprocal learning.
I will use this podcast in my future
teaching to inspire the thoughts of interaction to the kids through exploring
the different cultures from different countries. And we can also inspire the
thoughts of helping to the kids, use the different examples to teach the kids that
helping is a great thing in human activity and could build our world more
beautiful.