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Different Cultures, Different Humour? - Training Course

2022-3-PT02-KA153-YOU-0001024562022Mobility of youth workersfinalizedGood practice
Countries: PT|EL|TR|HR|PL|LV|RO|IT|CZ|ES · Grant: €24,865
Creativity, arts and cultureQuality and innovation of youth workEuropean identity and values

Objectives

Different Cultures, Different Humour? Seriously!? Are we joking?! No, we are not! AL Teatro, has a theatre company, resorts to humour, irony and other comedy tools, in several theatre plays, to denounce and question diverse severe social problems. We find it more effective than some more serious approaches. Sometimes unnoticed or unconscious, other times indirectly or in a really direct way, humour strikes us, and takes a significant place in our life. All cultures, societies and individuals have Sense of Humour. Scientific researchers claim that laughing is very good for your health and even accelerates patient recovery times. Other psychological and sociological research’s regarding humour indicates that it can affect our life in a positive way, but, on reverse, it can also have negative effects. Much of the importance of humour has not been understood properly yet. Humour can be summarized as making gags, sharing certain images, telling jokes, sharing humorous stories our just saying the right sentence in the right time or in the right place, but it´s much more than that. With “Different Cultures, Different Humour?” project we discussed, analysed, and tryed to understand how Humour is perceived and how its presence exists in different cultures, how different cultures react in different situations. The ten partners organizations came from all different sides of Europe: North, Central, South, Southwest and Southeast Europe and from Mesopotamia. In this way we are trying to have diverse types and senses of Humour. We aimed to use humour, which is one of our common and universal traits, to understand and prosper the role of it in our culture and works alike. We believe that humour has an important role in the changing process of common misunderstandings, prejudices and any negative thoughts and behaviours regarding different cultures. For this reason, we prioritized it in international projects. We wanted youngsters and youth workers to get in contact with various types of humour and be able to use them in future activities and projects. We also analysed the role of humour in social media, used by every young person everywhere, beside debating the link of humour to different countries’ social, cultural and politic life. But we wanted also to discover and develop Humour’s role in a more practical use, combining it with Non-Formal Education Methods and some Artistical and Theatrical Methods, and putting humour into use in the ice-breaking games, team building activities, group working, discovering the leadership skill, presentations techniques, effective communication methods, among other activities. As humour brings people together and constitutes the basis of effective learning methods has not been analysed enough yet in the youth work, and we wanted to draw attention to its function and significance and develop some new tools for the future youth projects and youth work. But, we realized with this project that "Different Cultures, Similar Humour"!

Project partners (10)