Education today needs a re-thinking. This book presents EUFICCS, an innovative, full-immersion approach to language and culture teaching. This holistic path empowers students with the intercultural and democratic competences necessary to function as future global citizens.
Lavinia Bracci
Lavinia Bracci is the founder and Director of Siena Italian Studies, Italy, which hosts educational exchange programmes for undergraduate and graduate students. Her research interests are innovative pedagogies in the field of intercultural studies and intercultural competence assessment. She invented the ‘Full-Immersion: Culture, Content and Service’ approach to develop reflective intercultural competence and the RICA Model for its assessment. She has been an ambassador of the EUFICCS approach worldwide, contributing to research in the field of reflective education and service-learning, and co-authored the book L’educazione riflessiva interculturale: L’approccio FICCS allo studio della lingua e cultura italiana. She holds a degree in Translation and Simultaneous Interpreting in German and Russian, and taught foreign languages and Italian as a second language for many years.