The Mofet Institute, Shoshana Parsitz 15, Tel Aviv 69378
Tel Aviv
Israel
- Youth and education
The Center aims to build bridges and cooperation among secular and religious Arabs and Jews in Israel, through effective use of the Internet and other cutting-edge technologies. Most specifically, it seeks to:
* Develop innovative educational models that connect cultures, using advanced technologies and applying these to schools;
* Enable Israeli teachers of diverse cultural backgrounds, to acquire knowledge and experience in using the Internet and other advanced communication technologies as teaching tools, while getting acquainted with each other;
* Develop and integrate on-line teaching units that inculcate acceptance of, and respect for those who are "different", both in teaching colleges and in schools;
* Create an inter-cultural online community comprising the teaching staff of teaching colleges and schools;
* Forge multi-cultural ties among faculty members and students at Israeli teacher education colleges; and among school students;
* Stimulate cooperative ventures in multiculturalism, among colleges and with the Ministry of Education, in Israel, as well as in other countries facing multi-cultural challenges.
The Center develops contact and collaborative learning within small multicultural groups, progressing gradually from on-line communication--which guarantees equal footing--to face-to-face interaction.
It operates on five levels:
1) Inter-college multi-cultural IT conferences for educators;
2) Joint innovative multi-cultural IT courses for Jewish and Arab student teachers;
3) Joint innovative multi-cultural IT courses for Jewish and Arab in-service teachers;
4) Joint multi-cultural IT courses for students in Jewish and Arab schools; and
5) Teaching units in teaching colleges that contribute to reducing prejudices among future teachers.