The intercultural and nonformal learning processes of children in primary school exchange programmes in France and Germany

Abstract

This paper is based on educational anthropology, and presents the initial findings of a three-year international comparative study of primary school children’s learning-processes during travel and cross-cultural encounters. A French-German research team investigated and here reports on primary school exchange programmes. Open coding of the ethnographic video material is evaluated in reference to intercultural education, as addressed in French and German primary school lessons in the social sciences.