Anna-Kaisa Mustarparta, National Board of Education, Finland:
"...we realized that we need a tool for intercultural skills so we just wrote in the curricular that the teachers should teach intercultural skills and a few words, but we couldn’t write any details because we did not have the tool (...) When we heard about CARAP we realized that this could be the tool (...)."
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My name is Anna-Kaisa Mustarparta, I come from Finland, from the National Board of Education where I work as a Counsellor of Education and my main responsibility is language teaching and learning naturally. We are on the point of writing new curricular for basic education and secondary education and when we wrote the last ones, it’s about ten almost years ago, we realized that we need a tool for intercultural skills so we just wrote in the curricular that the teachers should teach intercultural skills and a few words, but we couldn’t write any details because we did not have the tool how to analyse the skills and what to do with the pupils. When we heard about CARAP we realized that this could be the tool, now that we are renovating the curricular again we are trying to make use of what there is in the CARAP about the attitudes and skills and probably some of the materials although most of the materials are for francophones, Spanish, Italian and so on and so forth and in Finland they are not the most important languages living in the North of Europe, so i think we will have to adapt the CARAP idea somehow for out Finish situation and i hope that it is going to give us new ideas and we can forward the idea of language education where we don’t teach only one language but we cooperate between teachers of languages, teachers of various foreign languages and also teachers of the mother tongue and other languages.
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