Intercultural Talent Management Model: Virtual communities to promote collaborative learning in indigenous contexts. Teachers’ and students’ perceptions

• Published in: Computers in human behavior 2015-10, Vol.51, p.1191-1197
• Main Authors: Careaga Butter, Marcelo, Sepúlveda Valenzuela, Eileen, Badilla Quintana, María Graciela
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Collaborative learning; Interculturality; Talent Management; Virtual learning environment
• ISSN: 0747-5632; 1873-7692
• DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.01.030

•School networks among schools in indigenous contexts.•Interaction through VLE is a key to co-learning and managing talents.•Teachers appreciate pedagogical model to support their practices to enhance talents.•Students like to interact with people of other cultures using technology. The strong connection between technologies and globalization has made the phenomenon of interculturality increase at a global level. The aim was to determine the perception of teachers and students in the use of a Model of Talent Management for interculturality. A virtual learning environment (VLE) was used to link teachers and students of 5 schools in disadvantaged context of Chile through collaborative learning. The research is interpretive and positivist based on qualitative method approach, with quantitative contributions. Results show that talents of the students contribute to the formation of cultural identity that gives uniqueness to the human group to which they belong and the perception of teachers is that the phenomena of acculturation, enculturation and transculturation processes occur in learning linked to the management of the talents of students in intercultural contexts. With respect to the proposed model, trends indicate that it is possible to diagnose and promote talent through collaborative learning and intercultural dialogue. As for technology, it could be argued that it has reshaped relations between different cultures.