Critical intercultural education in higher education

crossing first-person narratives

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https://doi.org/10.46661/ccselap-13170

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Critical Interculturality., Intercultural Learning., Student Voice in Inclusive Education., Participatory Research., Pedagogy of Higher Education., Learning Events

Abstract

This article aims to problematize processes of critical interculturality in the context of university education, carried out with a view to promoting educational inclusion, through the voices of students in spaces of great cultural diversity. Among other significant events, the one reported in the article stands out, in which each and every author engaged in a reflection on themselves, their conditions and factors maintaining privilege and oppression, as well as on ways of acting that resist them. The learning event extended over several weeks because, in addition to prior readings and reflections based on reference authors on intercultural education and critical interculturality, there were moments of individual writing, visual creation, sharing and oral discussion, as well as recording reflections a posteriori on the entire experience and the learning attributed to it. The diary entries (by the teacher) and portfolios (by the students) constitute the data analyzed, following a narrative and participatory research methodology. It is concluded that the critical dimension is relevant in all phases of the work, with reflective and dialogical periods that recursively favored self-awareness in relation to the contexts and the development of commitment to intercultural education.

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Ana Caetano, UIDEF

Ana Paula Caetano, UIDEF, Instituto de Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, POrtugal

Associate Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon, Integrated research at UIDEF. She has a degree in Psychology, a Masters in Education Sciences, ​​specialization in Education Psychology and a PhD in Sciences of Education, specialty of Teacher Training, by the University of Lisbon. She has participated in national and international projects in the areas of curriculum and teacher training and in interdisciplinary issues, with emphasis on professional development, ethics, education and citizenship, socio-educational mediation, arts education and intercultural education. Research on these issues is at the origin of scientific articles and book chapters published in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English.

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2026-06-29

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Caetano, A., Gmaf, A., Pereira , C., Rodrigues, I., Inverneiro, M., Siegmund , S., & Sambé, V. (2026). Critical intercultural education in higher education : crossing first-person narratives. Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives, 1(22), 1–29. https://doi.org/10.46661/ccselap-13170

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Vol. 1 No. 22 (2026): Ethnic and cultural diversity in the construction of national and global identities: challenges towards culture for sustainability

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