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We are a rainbow: Bridging cultures via peer learning

2021-2-TR01-KA210-SCH-0000487382021Small-scale partnerships in school educationfinalized
Countries: TR|ES|IT · Grant: €30,000
New learning and teaching methods and approachesBridging intercultural, intergenerational and social divideReception and integration of refugees and migrants

Objectives

Our project is designed to support sustainablity of societies in terms of inclusion and diversity. We aimed to foster peer learning to prevent fragmentation among young people and raise awareness and knowledge of diversity for young people, teachers and NGO members.We wanted to use peer learning to let our students learn from each other and feel closer and more comfortable,work collaboratively,learn how to live together and gain vital 21st Century skills.We aimed to support building a more accepting and open environment at our school and in societies in general to enable disadvantaged immigrant students to express themselves freely and feel that they are not left behind and being treated in an equal way. Besides, by providing diversity and inclusion trainings and experiences gained in this project, we wanted our teachers and NGO members to be more sufficient and comfortamble with teaching and leading multicultural young people and groups more efficiently.We also aimed to share information on different language learning and teaching methods for immigrants, observe and learn regulations,policies,goals,strategic plans and practices of participating countries,EU and European countries and on social inclusion and immigration.

Background

As the world has become a global village, we need to learn how to live togehter better and gain 21st century skills to be able to keep pace with fastly evolving world.Learning to live in culturally diverse societies has become a vital competency for being a global citizen.As diversity at schools and societies raise both in EU countries and Turkiye,we wanted to share and learn more from each other to support unity,dignity and sustainabity.Depending on our research and observations,we found out that our partner countries where many immigrants live and face with numerous hardships such as othering, racism,inequity,labelling and discrimination need to come together to share solutions, exchange information and support each other.With multicultural gatherings and meetings,we aimed to contribute to educational and social equalization and toleration by eliminating problems rooting from social injustice we face at schools and among young people in general.Hopefully, these main problems mentioned above could be addressed with the activies applied in the project and we could raise an awareness and competency in our participants and organisations in terms of inclusion and diversity

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