Selective intercultural sensitivity to different sources of cultural identity: Study of intercultural sensitivity of students at teacher education programs of Georgia

Shalva Tabatadze has a PhD in education and has served as a chairman of the Centre for Civil Integration and Inter-Ethnic Relations (CCIIR) since 2005. Throughout this period, he provided leadership to more than 45 international projects in the field of education. Dr Tabatadze is an Associate Professor at East European University, Tbilisi, Georgia. He has received several important awards for his academic, practical and research activities in the field of education. He was awarded the Edmund Muskie Program Fellowship by the United States Department of State of in 2006. That year, he also received the Phi Beta Delta International Scholars award for distinguished scholars and students of 2006. For his work in the field of bilingual and minority education, he was inducted into Kent State University’s Hall of Fame and received Kent State’s Diversity Alumni Award in 2011. His research interests are educational policy and multilingual and intercultural education. He is the author of 4 textbooks, 7 monographs and more than 30 articles in the field of educational policy and multilingual and intercultural education and the editor of more than 10 textbooks on content and language integrated teaching. Dr Tabatadze serves as an educational expert and consultant for many international organizations and has participated as an educational expert for more than 40 research and education projects since 2005. Dr Tabatadze has experience working as an international consultant in Moldova, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.

Natia Gorgadze holds a PhD in education sciences. Her professional experience counts 12 years of working for national and international institutions including public, academic and private sector. Currently she works for the Centre for Civil Integration and Inter-Ethnic Relations as a program manager. At the same time, she acts as a national consultant for the research organization – Mathematica Policy Research – which performs M&E services for the general education component of the MCC/MCA Georgia project Compact 2, where the development of native and English language skills are one of the objectives. Dr Gorgadze is an Invited Lecturer at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. She has authored many publications in the field of equity and equality, literacy and multicultural perspectives. She serves as education and M&E expert for international and national research and evaluation projects and has participated in more than 45 research studies and evaluations for the past 10 years. Dr Gorgadze has an experience of working as international consultant in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Bulgaria.