Integration and multiculturalism: essays on EBS Fontes Pereira de Melo

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2026

Authors

Ferreira, Ana Ferreira (Author) Other; Pacheco, Elsa (Author) FLUP; Teixeira, Francisca (Author) Other

Book

Title: Compromised Geography : spreading a New World

Pages: 37-50

ISBN: 978-3-032-05200-1 (hbk); 978-3-032-05203-2 (pbk)

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-032-05201-8

Publisher: Springer Cham

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-05201-8_3

Abstract (EN): One of the most interesting consequences of the intensification of population flows on an international scale is the promotion of multicultural societies. As responsible agents for the education of young people in Portugal, we cannot fail to note the challenge facing primary and secondary schools which, in the recent years, have been confronted with an increasing number of students from very diverse geographical backgrounds. Developing a set of activities that highlight the differences that characterise the diversity and cultural richness of our planet, the geography teacher develops attitudes and promotes behaviours that value multiculturalism at school and in society that shape the values of future citizens. In fact, in a global world in which human interaction is increasingly a reality (and our country is no exception), welcoming communities that are more and more diverse in linguistic and cultural terms, the school as a privileged space for human interaction is the ideal stage to change behaviours and shape attitudes of the next generations. This study aims to analyse the views of geography teachers and pupils on the ‘integration’ of foreign pupils at school and to demonstrate the added value of this heterogeneity of geographical origins for the teaching and learning of Geography. To achieve this goal, we used a qualitative and quantitative work methodology in the case of the Fontes Pereira de Melo Primary and Secondary School (EBSFPM), in Porto, whose results suggest that, with in-depth work on multicultural education, the obvious richness of being able to teach and learn from difference enhances the role of the school in contemporary society.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific