This project produced outcomes that are beneficial for students at the age of 14-18 by having them gain empathy by managing learning environments to help them find their way successfully in society. After they gain important skills to foster empathy and tolerance, students are be able to adopt a new mindset and escape from biases, hatred towards different cultures and people. As a result, they have improved communications, resolve conflicts and social difficulties and will play a proactive role in daily life while searching for new solutions among the members of the community. Our aim was to effectively deal with hatred towards foreigners by facilitating a mindset change in 14-18 year olds through the use of forum theatres and micro learning. Objectives: • to support actions against intercultural problems like racism and social fears in the EU. • to nurture specific skills such as tackling radicalization, expression of feelings and cooperation. • to challenge established perceptions of various cultures and exploring solutions. • to increase awareness on intercultural differences. • to have better results in communication, social relations, international cultural awareness and embracing differences.
We aimed to help educators integrate an effective treatment strategy easily into their daily drama classes in order to beat prejudices and hatred towards different cultures and ethnicities across Europe. Thanks to the accessibility of technology, results of this project is able to be embedded in a great number of education contexts and reach plenty of students who may easily get bored during long and laborious treatment processes by offering them self training that are short and effective. Our vision was to combat xenophobia in high school students by developing empathy, respect and self expression to gain confidence socially with a combination of forum theatres and micro learning. Forum theatres are a remarkable way of practicing social scenarios and considered as perfect treatment for the perspective change which is clearly the main objective. This project helps students receive confidence, a professional stance and knowledge on taking immediate and effective actions to facilitate Forum theatres while combating xenophobia. The results of this project increases European consciousness towards different cultures and partners will spread it to their countries as key persons to help students find their way successfully in society.