Task of leadership for intercultural opening strategies in organizations in adult and continuing education

ABSTRACT: In view of the growing number of people with a migration background, continuing education organizations are faced with strategic tasks of intercultural opening. These tasks require leaders to initiate and expand integration-promoting teaching work, to promote the intercultural sensitization of the members of the organization, and to develop an intercultural culture. This is a wide issue and concerns leadership action regarding funding, regular and special course programs, training for staff and lecturers, intercultural training, etc. In this qualitative study, the types of intercultural openness adopted by the management of adult education centers were categorized into proactive, reflexive, ambivalent, and symbolic types of openness. Using the procedure of exploratory sequential design, hy

SUBMITTER: Muders S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8764248 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature