Stereotypes and prejudices
The aim of the programme is the acceptance of diversity in primary school children.
Themes - Objectives
- Getting to know each other – Contract
- Introduce the team members and the coordinator-teacher to each other.
- Establish common rules for the smooth running of the team.
- Describe the programme (purpose, objectives, number of meetings, methodology, etc.)
- Team Dynamics-Collaboration
- To increase the knowledge of how teams work and what are the factors that hinder or facilitate their functioning
- Working groups: Different people-different cultures
- To bring children into contact with different cultures
- Work in a team
- Stereotypes – Fears – Preconceptions
- Identify and understand the concepts of stereotypes and prejudices
- Understand how fear is linked to prejudice
- Labeling
- For students to recognise the process of labelling
- Understand how labelling is linked to prejudice and lack of personal responsibility
- Racism
- Define the concept of racism
- Distinguish between the forms of racism
- To distinguish the difference with prejudices, but also when prejudices can “give birth” to racism.
- Adopt a negative attitude towards racist attitudes
- A Special Friend
- Strengthen children’s self-acceptance and self-esteem
- Encourage the peer group to accept each child with his/her diversity
- Support the team to recognise the positive aspects of each member
- Strengthen the power of mutual support of the team
- To process different & opposite emotions
- To feel comfortable with everything and feel that all emotions have a place in us
- Understand the importance of accepting their feelings
- Understand the concept of empathy and the importance of trying to put themselves in the other person’s shoes
- Manage prejudices
- Adopt a responsible attitude in their relationships
- Recognise the value of personal choice
- Recognise the value of friendship and love
- Present the group work undertaken in the 2nd workshop and see if it enriches the discussion today in any way
- To say goodbye to the children
- To complete the process and close the team and the program
- For children to evaluate their experience of the project
Program structure:
- Implementation of an introductory training seminar (2 days, 11 hours) for teachers, aiming at the understanding of basic concepts of the programme on the one hand and familiarisation with experiential learning techniques on the other hand.
- Supervision team for teachers, coordinated by staff of the “ELPIDA” Prevention Centre. The aim of this team will be to support teachers in the implementation of the educational material to students. The duration of each meeting will be 2 hours, depending on the number of participants. The total number of supervisory meetings will be determined with each group.
- Parallel application of the educational material of the programme by the teachers to the students (10 two-hour sessions).
Participants will receive a certificate of participation after the end of the seminar and the implementation of the programme to the students. ”