Through literature (short stories) we endeavour to build international understanding. Adolescents have therefore the opportunity to go beyond a tourist perspective of gaining information about another culture. In this way they may gain insights into how people feel, live and think around the world. Moreover they might as well value cultural differences. Creating new understanding about cultural perspectives and global issues should diminish stereotypical perceptions, i.e religion, gender, relationships, class, race, sexual orientation etc. Although intercultural understanding is grounded in awareness of one’s own cultural perspective, students need to consider points of view beyond their own…
Reading critically is the stance that race, class, and gender matter in how we interpret and analyse our experiences in the world as well as in the texts we encounter.
