Proposals for the development of interculturality in educational programmes carried out during leisure time and with a community approach in Catalonia

INTRODUCTION. The educational programmes carried out during leisure time and with a community approach played an important role in the development of social cohe¬sion in Catalonia. In this paper the value of this contribution is recognized, but at the same time, the existence of educational concentration and segregation dynamics is identified as a problem for interculturality. For this reason, some proposals presented here can help these organizations to manage interculturally their projects, for example, reflecting the sociocultur¬al diversity of the community within they are developed. METHOD. The framework of this paper is a research project oriented to contribute to the strengthening of intercultural vision in this context. The goals were: identify organizational and educational conditions which fa¬cilitate or not the development of interculturality; and, make proposals for their sustainability or improvement. Some qualitative technics were used to collect data: documentary analysis, semi-structured interviews and discussion groups. And Atlas-Ti program, as well as, discourse critical analysis procedure were used to analyse the data. RESULTS. The results pointed out that, even though there are advantageous and disadvantageous conditions to interculturality, those that restrict the sociocultural diversity of participants influence more. And it was con¬firmed that educational teams have not developed, or very little, their community dimension. DISCUSSION. On the basis of the results obtained and the literature reviewed is suggested, on one hand, the impulse of some organizational actions oriented to participation, diversity attention and training actions. On the other, it is noted the appropriateness of designing and launching actions, together with the educational community, to manage the existence of over-representation of some sociocultural profiles among participants, and finally, it is pro¬posed the constitution of diversity attention’ community teams to manage interculturality among educational community and oriented to overcome the concentration and segregation educational dynamics.