Paper short abstract:

In the paper I would like to raise the question of the teachers' perspectives on the theories and practices of intercultural education. Teachers' practices and strategies tell us a lot about how the Us/Other division is created, how they understand the nation and the (national) culture.

Paper long abstract:

In the paper I would like to raise the question of the teachers' perspectives on the theories and practices of intercultural education of "the foreign pupils" and the Roma pupils. The research was based on the interviews with the teachers of the primary schools in Granada (Spain) and Poznań (Poland). The goal I had set for the research was to understand and describe the multi- and intercultural education as it is conceptualised and practiced by the core agent of the integration at school. Schools' practices and strategies, visible in two school placetimes: festival and everyday, together with the teachers' concepts of the culture as an ongoing practice tell us a lot about how the school teachers create the Us/Other division, how they understand the idea of the Other, the nation and the (national) culture.