Democratic Citizenship -our intercultural research assignment-

Our instructer Thomas gave us a task about an intercultural research. He said us to work with our school experience team. We were to analyse how young people with different ethnic backgrounds understand themselves in terms of culture and identity and how they describe it.

As Thomas gave us an option to use a camera and make a video. We decided to hold this reaserch making an interview with our school experience guide techer Linda. Linda is a professional class teacher working at the Isling school. She with us teach the 4th grade students. On many tuesdays and fridays we were with her. But, it was a luck for us that there were last two more lessons with her. So, we could make an interview with her. Why we chosed her to speak is because the students in her class can not speak English. That is why we spoke to her about our research.

We prepared some questions related diversity in her classroom such as:

1. Do you have students who belong to different ethnic backgrounds?
2. How those students who are
   • with different ethnic backgrounds understand themselves in terms of culture and identity and how they describe it?
3. Do you see if there is some differences about those students when they act in a Danish way?
4. Do you teach the students about different selebrations related to different cultures?
5. Do you feel about racisim in your class between the students?
6. Do you sing your national anthem in your school together with other students who are with different cultural background?
7. Do you have religion lesseon? If yes, what do you teach in this lesson? Do you only teach Christianity?  We tried to get answers to those question from Linda. She kindly helped us about this and sincerly answered to our questions. Here is our interview wit her.

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Briefly to mention about our research result is that there is no so much cultural conflict among the students with different cultural backgrounds in Denmark. They live and study quite in a positive and compatible way. Sometimes some difficulties may happen, but this is sorted out easily said our guide teacher Linda. The thing that impressed me so much was that when I asked her if you sing a national anthem here. She said deffinately no. She said that we don't disturb the others singing something which belongs only our nation and culture. Even if the majority of the school is Danish, we do not apply such a thing she said.

From the respect the other receive from Danish make the others to be in good relationships with Danish. Maybe the most signicifent point lies in that respect.