Towards Intercultural Education: Exploring Perceptions of Cultural Diversity and Identities of Adolescents Living in the Border Area between Spain and Morocco

Borders are complex spaces of relationships and interpretations built from the perspective of cultural diversity. The complexity of these spaces concerns the ways in which they are created, experienced and questioned by the people who inhabit them. They are considered spaces of exclusion but also of...

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Published inEducation sciences Vol. 13; no. 6; p. 559
Main Authors Gallego-Noche, Beatriz, Goenechea, Cristina, Gómez-Ruiz, Miguel Ángel, Machín-Alvarez, Macarena
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2023
Subjects
adolescence
Adolescents
Attitudes
borders
Boundaries
Collaboration
Cultural identity
Data collection
Discrimination
Educational Research
Immigrants
Immigration
Individualized Instruction
Minority & ethnic groups
Multicultural Education
Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Muslims
Otherness
Questionnaires
Social aspects
Surveys
Teenagers
Youth
Morocco
Spain
Strait of Gibraltar
Europe
Africa
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Summary:Borders are complex spaces of relationships and interpretations built from the perspective of cultural diversity. The complexity of these spaces concerns the ways in which they are created, experienced and questioned by the people who inhabit them. They are considered spaces of exclusion but also of educational opportunities. This research aims to explore how adolescents who live at the border area between Spain and Morocco value cultural diversity and different aspects related to the construction of their identities. The cities of Algeciras and La Línea in Spain and Tangier and Tetouan in Morocco were selected, and a questionnaire in Arabic and Spanish was administered to a total sample of 751 adolescents, obtaining a significant sample of the adolescent population (confidence level greater than 95% and estimation error less than 2%). The data were statistically analysed using the SPSS Statistics V24 software programme. The results show significant differences between the Moroccan and Spanish adolescents regarding their perceptions of cultural diversity and how it can be a source of conflict; how they shape their identities and identify with the ways of life and habits of the neighbouring country; and how religion influences their cultural identities.
ISSN:2227-7102
2227-7102
DOI:10.3390/educsci13060559