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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Educ.
Sec. Teacher Education
Volume 9 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2024.1333697

How can multiculturalism be celebrated through teacher training in Israel?

Provisionally accepted
Noa Shapira Noa Shapira 1*Meital Amzalag Meital Amzalag 2
  • 1 Kinneret College, Kinneret, Israel
  • 2 Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel

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    Can we celebrate multiculturalism through teachers' training in a heterogeneous and diverse setting such as Israeli society? The current study examines teachers' processes through an online teachers' professional development program and an interactive activity, where 68 Israeli teachers shared their cultural stories with teachers from other cultures.Findings indicate that the teachers who met with teachers from other cultures, whom they usually don't meet, wanted to learn about each other's culture, including their religious values, practices, and traditions while looking for commonalities. Furthermore, such intercultural meetings can occur online if the activities are designed to foster meaningful meetings and discussions between different cultures despite the social rifts and the separation within the education system.

    Keywords: diverse society, multiculturalism, Online interaction, Intercultural Relations, Multicultural education

    Received: 05 Nov 2023; Accepted: 12 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Shapira and Amzalag. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Noa Shapira, Kinneret College, Kinneret, Israel

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