As a result of the observations and researches we have made in the common schools, we have found that xenophobia and racial discrimination among our students is a big problem. Also; students see the people from different backgrounds and identities as potential enemies because of their differences, and racism becomes a threat among them. So this harms the European Union integration project that the European Union is trying to create to globalize and respect for differences. Considering the recent increase in refugees in European countries, it was inevitable to address the school's impact on racism. Our main goal in writing this project in the light of all these researches and observations is; to reduce the negative thoughts of the students from the different backgrounds and identities of the students who study in the partner schools. Our special goals are; a) To make students aware that all individuals may be different, b) To reduce the influence of media and social media on students. c) Providing cultural fusion by breaking prejudices among children, d) To teach the students the basic elements of different beliefs, e) Adopting the importance of respecting individual differences on ensuring peace in the society for the students, their parents and teachers. With a seminar and 6 transnational meetings there will be 7 mobilities. Mostly 3 teachers and 3 students will attend the meetings. One of the students will be disadvantaged. Students will be selected on a voluntary basis. Gender balance will be provided among the students. The teachers will be volunteer teachers who take responsibility throughout the project, follow the activities closely and contribute to the project. They also need to know enough English to communicate. "Seminar on Awareness of Differences" will be given to participants in the presence of an instructor. Thus, in the first place, trainers and the students will be aware of differences. - Photographs by our Italian partner will be sent to all partner schools and teachers will ask for students’ interpretation to show them that each individual can think and be different. Students will prepare a film to show the problems caused by prejudice against different cultures. Artistic activities reflecting cultural items will be prepared and exhibited. A folk dance, a traditional song will be performed and a traditional meal will be introduced by each country. Each country will write a traditional tale of their own culture in English with the drawings of students. A traditional arts exhibition will be prepared to show traditional products of each country in the field of literature, painting and handcrafts. The video work will be done on the negative effects of media and social media. The places of worship will be visited and short conversations will be held with the religious leaders in the mobilities for respect and awareness of different beliefs. The project corners will have three words from the partner country languages and this will be updated every month to support language dicersity. Prejudice handbook and a handbook which summarizes the project will be created in the last 2 months of our project. In our project, we base our students and teachers on learning by doing and living. Also, methods and techniques such as videos, short films, various visuals, exhibition dances and songs, project corner creation, language preparations, interactive presentation, discussion, brain storming, question-answer will be used for our activities. Materials such as posters, brochures, newspapers and handbooks will also support the quality of our activities. With the seminar on individual differences teachers and students will raise the awareness on individual differences. Students will prepare video about the bad effects of media so they will be aware of the disadvantage of it. And this will decrease the negative effect of media on students. They will learn about different cultures, beliefs, art, lifestyles and so on. That will help them to understand the differences and will gain them the ability to live together. Students and teachers will have the chance to exchange their experinces and knowledge. So it will contribute to the school athmophere and teaching profession. They will also develop their communication skills in english. Disadvantaged students will be more active and open to changes. With a positive climate in schools, education will be of high quality. Educators whose capabilities will improve by trainings and activities will be more component at educating students from different backgrounds. We will share the project activities on social media; on interactive environment and social fields like facebook, twitter and blogs. Therefore the people and the related institutions will be able to reach them and raise awareness about racism and xenopobia.
After the observations and researches we made in the partner schools, we found that xenophobia and racial discrimination among our students was a big problem. Also; students had the idea that the people from different backgrounds and identities as potential enemies because of their differences, and racism became a threat among them. So this was harmful for the European Union integration project that the European Union was trying to create to globalize and respect for differences. Considering the recent increase in refugees in European countries, it was inevitable to address the school's impact on racism. Our main goal in writing this project in the light of all these researches and observations was; to reduce the negative thoughts of the students from the different backgrounds and identities of the students who study in the partner schools. Our special goals were; a) To make students aware that all individuals may be different, b) To reduce the influence of media and social media on students. c) Providing cultural fusion by breaking prejudices among children, d) To teach the students the basic elements of different beliefs, e) Adopting the importance of respecting individual differences on ensuring peace in the society for the students, their parents and teachers. With 6 transnational meetings and one online meeting we conducted 7 mobilities. A minimum number of 2 teachers and 3 students attended the meetings. According to some activities all partners were free to involve more participants. One of the students was disadvantaged. Students selected according to the conditions and on voluntary basis. Gender balance provided among the students. The teachers were volunteer teachers who took responsibility throughout the project, followed the activities closely and contributed to the project. They also knew enough English to communicate. "Seminar on Awareness of Differences" activity was realized by an expert. Thus, in the first place, trainers and the students were aware of differences. Commenting on photographs activity was organized by our Italian partner and sent to all partner schools and teachers to show and ask their students’ interpretation. This helped the students see that each individual could think and be different. Students prepared a film to show the problems caused by prejudice against different cultures. Artistic activities reflecting cultural items prepared and exhibited. A folk dance, a traditional song performed and a traditional meal cooked and introduced by each country. Each country wrote a traditional tale of their own culture in English and in local language with the drawings of students. A traditional arts exhibition prepared to show traditional products of each country in the field of literature, painting and handcrafts. The video work was done on negative effects of social media. The places of worship were visited and short conversations were held with the religious leaders in the mobilities for respect and awareness of different beliefs. We gathered five words/sentences from the partner country languages for project corners and updated it every month to support language diversity. Prejudice handbook and a handbook which summarizes the project were created in the last 2 months of our project. In our project, we supported our students and teachers on learning by doing and living. Also, methods and techniques such as videos, short films, various visuals, exhibition dances and songs, project corner creation, language preparations, interactive presentation, discussion, brain storming, question-answer were used for our activities. Materials such as posters, brochures, newspapers and handbooks also supported the quality of our activities. With the seminar on individual differences, awareness on individual differences raised among teachers and students. Students prepared videos about the bad effects of media so they became aware of the disadvantage of it. And this decreased the negative effect of media on students. They learned about different cultures, beliefs, art, lifestyles and so on. That helped them to understand the differences and gained them the ability to live together. Students and teachers had the chance to exchange their experiences and knowledge. So it contributed to the school atmosphere and teaching profession. They also developed their communication skills in English. Disadvantaged students became more active and open to changes. Educators improved their capabilities with trainings and activities and became more component at educating students from different backgrounds. We shared the project activities on social media; on interactive environment and social fields like Facebook, twitter and blogs. Therefore, the people and the related institutions reached them and raised awareness about racism and xenophobia.