Aims of International Youth exchange.
Learning
- to get knowledge of t he culture
- to get aware of / to get able to explain - social structures,
- economic and social systems,
- rules of communication / interaction,
- values, norms, ways of thinking and acting
- to practice English language
Social competence
- to act in a group / team, to communicate, to lead a group
- to make friends, to trust somebody
- to tell emotions and feelings
- to make compromises / to find solutions
- to be careful, attentive, to have patience
Individual competence
- self organisation, self critic, to motivate yourself
- to improve self-confidence (doing well in a difficult situation)
- to see, that everybody in a society is important
- to overcome fears of unknown things
- to risk and to be willing to learn
- to be mobile, to have pioneer ideas, to improvise
- to be able to be physically and psychological loaded
- to be flexible and creative in unknown situations
- to be realistic in coming to know yourself and others
- to come to know your own weakness and strength
- to come to know other ways of building up relations
- to realize how you see things, how you evaluate them / judge, how you behave
- to see yourself critically
- to ask about why somebody acts in a way
and how we explain it in our own culture group
· to get aware of the own culture / specials: - What is important for me?
- What do I do automatically?
= leaded self experience
Intercultural competence
· to be able to interact with somebody of another culture in a sensible and successful way
· to be aware, that everybody’s way of thinking is influenced by culture
· to be curios / to have interest for other cultures
· to be enthusiastic
· to be able to change the point of view
· to try to feel how other people are feeling
· to listen and to ask, if you don’t understand the behaviour of somebody else
· to consider other cultural habits
· to consider Your own culture and the other culture and to find solutions / common aims
· to accept / to practise other forms of critic
· to recognize differences, turn them into words, concede them and worth them:
· to recognize how other people are influenced in their way of how they perceive, think, judge and act
· to understand that power structures are important for behaviour:
· to understand strange ways of living and solving problems
· to be tolerant and to accept that other forms of living make sense and are reasonable
· to be able to adapt yourself to other cultures
· to ask, if the own point of view is right
= we are all victims our own way of thinking
the intercultural
1. to see, what we have in common,
what is different,
if both could go together
desired: how You come to know each other /
how You could communicate with each other
rules of organization
borders: religious taboos, rules, not following human rights
2. What do I have to change?
In how far shall I or am I able to change myself?
3. How could the other change himself?
How could I tell the other my own aims and ways of behaviour,
so that he understands them, accepts them and
perhaps comes a little bit towards myself / changes a bit?
4. What will follow these changes?
