We see a growing distance between different groups in the Swedish society and this also reflected in a school context. There is also a tendency, due to internet use, to focus on the individual rather than the group. We believe that, in order to open up young peoples' minds and to be able to accept differences they must also challenge themselves in a social context. Drama and theatre is an excellent forum to develop this skill. Our project aims to create meetings between students within our schools (students with different backgrounds) as well as meetings between different schools. We want to find narratives, write a play dealing with these issues and during the creative process reach goals that are formulated within our school curriculum. The participants of this project will be students 32 students, in total, at upper secondary level from Stockholm and Grenoble as well as 6 accompanying teachers. Both schools offer excellent opportunities to share different backgrounds. Pupils in the Swedish schools are from rather homogenous socio-economic background, while the school in Grenoble is more heterogenous with students with different cultural backgrounds. In the Swedish school the group of refuges students are rather isolated. With this project we wish to tear down the invisible frontiers that enables a school to be this divided. By emphasising the many benefits of multiculturalism, we hope to influence our students to be more open-minded towards other peoples’ differences. The students will work together in a creative process interviewing, writing, interpreting and performing reciprocal plays. The performance itself will not last for ever, the text, however, will remain. The teachers will carry out classroom observations focusing on how questions of tolerance and multiculturalism is brought up and treated in the teaching situation. The experiences made will then be brought back to their own classrooms and enrich the way they interact with their students.
We see a growing distance between different groups in the Swedish society and this also reflected in a school context. There is also a tendency, due to internet use, to focus on the individual rather than the group. We believe that, in order to open up young peoples' minds and to be able to accept differences they must also challenge themselves in a social context. Drama and theatre is an excellent forum to develop this skill. Our project aims to create meetings between students within our schools (students with different backgrounds) as well as meetings between different schools. We want to find narratives, write a play dealing with these issues and during the creative process reach goals that are formulated within our school curriculum. The participants of this project will be students 32 students, in total, at upper secondary level from Stockholm and Grenoble as well as 6 accompanying teachers. Both schools offer excellent opportunities to share different backgrounds. Pupils in the Swedish schools are from rather homogenous socio-economic background, while the school in Grenoble is more heterogenous with students with different cultural backgrounds. In the Swedish school the group of refuges students are rather isolated. With this project we wish to tear down the invisible frontiers that enables a school to be this divided. By emphasising the many benefits of multiculturalism, we hope to influence our students to be more open-minded towards other peoples’ differences. The students will work together in a creative process interviewing, writing, interpreting and performing reciprocal plays. The performance itself will not last for ever, the text, however, will remain. The teachers will carry out classroom observations focusing on how questions of tolerance and multiculturalism is brought up and treated in the teaching situation. The experiences made will then be brought back to their own classrooms and enrich the way they interact with their students.