TY - JOUR AU - Castillo, Rigoberto - AU - Grande-Triviño, Nancy Viviana PY - 2016/04/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Representaciones culturales del caribe colombiano: Una experiencia de interculturalidad con jóvenes de un campamento ruso JF - Horizontes pedagógicos JA - Horiz. pedagog. VL - 17 IS - 2 SE - Artículos DO - UR - https://horizontespedagogicos.ibero.edu.co/article/view/17204 SP - 39-52 AB - <p>This paper reports an ethnographic study that explored the cultural representations of Colombia’s Caribbean region to engage a group of teenagers taking English at a summer camp in Siberia, Russia. &nbsp;The need of promoting intercultural awareness while enhancing the teenagers’ language competence seemed essential since their behavior and ways of thinking were disengaged from learning about other cultures. &nbsp;The authors implemented Cooperative Learning (Johnson, Johnson and Holubec, 1994) with tasks to share the participants’ and the teacher's views on culture. &nbsp;The data gathered indicates that there were gains in awareness on cultural diversity. &nbsp;By stepping outside their boundaries, the campers moved away from ethnocentric attitudes and realized about the meaning that peoples assign to traditions, and thus gaining intercultural awareness.</p> ER -