Cultural instruction in basic education

Cultural instructors act as links between schools and immigrant families and support cooperation and intercultural understanding. Their activities include service counselling, consultation and providing emotional support. They can, for example, help at meetings between school staff and guardians or assist with other support measures, such as assessment meetings, enrolment in school, absence intervention measures and many other situations. Cultural instructors are under an obligation of confidentiality.

Cultural instructors do preventive work, in line with the principles of early intervention. Cultural instruction is a free-of-charge service for authorities and clients. Schools can contact the instructors directly.

In addition to Finnish, the cultural instructors’ languages include Albanian, Arabic, Persian (Dari/Farsi), Kurdish/Sorani, Chinese, Somali.

Read more about cultural instruction in Espoo’s Swedish-speaking basic education: Undervisning för språk- och kulturgrupper (in Swedish)