Teachers' sensitivity to the model of intercultural education: Needs, current situation and proposal of a measuring instrument

Abstract

In recent years, Chile is producing a phenomenon of immigration from other countries that are shaping a new multicultural social context. Of course, the classrooms reflect this plural-ity of cultures, so that the education system must answer primarily through teacher training. This article is structured in two parts: at first, taking advantage of the recent experience of countries like Spain in the area, it presents different attitudes of the educational community to intercultural education, in a second part it provides guidelines for how it should be ideal training for teachers in this area and, finally, we propose a data collection tool used to measure the sensitivity of teachers and raise the possibility of continuing education of teachers, a strong intercultural competence as well as the detection of working groups to lead transformative actions in schools.