BELIEFS OF VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL ACTORS ABOUT THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF FOREIGNERS

Abstract

The arrival of foreign students to educational centres conveys a professional challenge to all members of educational communities. Moreover, a change in education is needed so it would orientate the kind of person studying to face a globalised society which changes continuously. The professionals who work with cultural diversity lack the formation in suitable competences for their educational labour. During a qualitative investigation, in which educators’ beliefs from two educational centres in Temuco were collected using semi-structured interviews. The obtained results show that these professionals are worried about prejudices generated among families whose children share classrooms with foreign students.