This project aimed to tackle unequality by addressing children's identity, values and beliefs at school and by empowering teachers in a democratic dialogue at school. The project has set up an online and open access toolkit and e-learning with a community to exchange good practices. It also aimed to use democratic dialogue' as a conflict management method at school, empowering teachers to deal with intolerance and discriminating behavior. It has strengthened European secondary school teachers in dealing with multicultural challenges at school. Additionally, the project provides a guide for implementation and policy recommendations about the preconditions for implementing DD@S at school. DD@S aimed to directly address about 75 school teachers in each participating country within their network for further dissemination of project results.
Partners in the DD@S project, Democratic Dialogue at school, share their vision, common ideas and approaches to handle difficult situations that originate in the context of sociocultural diversity at school. Managing intercultural ideas in the classroom, was a common need. It refers to relational, emotional and communication difficulties, considering the relationships with pupils, between pupils and very often, with pupils’ parents. Controversial themes that tirgger conflict are homosexuality, terrorism, racism, religion, ... Because peer support in how to deal with this is important, we shared the idea to create an accessible dialogue training that fosters a sense of belonging between school team, teachers, pupils and parents. The DD@S project contributed in the professional development of teachers to acquire effective dialogue skills to cope with ethnic, religious and multicultural conflict situations at school.