The program “And if it was you?”, implemented by the Hellenic Theatre/Drama & Education Network in collaboration with UNHCR, aims to raise awareness within the educational community on refugee issues and human rights through drama-based pedagogical practices. Through training seminars, workshops, and inclusive actions, it fosters empathy, intercultural understanding, and active participation in both school
Entry Category: Social Justice & Human Rights in Education
Website of the Pedagogical Group “The Skasiarchy” – Experimental palpations for a community school
The official website of the pedagogical group “The Skasiarcheio”, which brings together people of letters and arts, teachers from the fields of primary, secondary and tertiary education in order to exchange views, ideas and proposals for a public school, compensatory to inequalities and political in its characteristics, for a school of the community, in which
Compass – Manual for Human Rights Education with young people
A methodological guide to human rights education for young people, which provides teachers, animators and scientists working with young people with a theoretical framework, methodological guidelines, practical exercises, educational material and activity suggestions, in order to inform and motivate young people to actively engage with the broader issue of human rights and, by extension, the
The “other” students at school: from assimilation of differences to “intercultural” inquiry
The text presents some basic directions followed by educational policy regarding the integration of pupils with ethnocultural differences (children of immigrants or minorities) in school. It draws on the experience of three Western countries: the United States, Great Britain and France. It then shows how this issue is linked at the research level to the
Cultural diversity and human rights: Challenges for education
The 18 essays in this volume reflect an interdisciplinary dialogue on the contradictions and dilemmas posed by the correlation between the concepts of “cultural otherness” and “human rights” in the social field. The theoretical exploration of the boundaries between the universal character of rights and communitarian approaches to otherness is accompanied by analyses focused on
Heterogeneity and school
The authors explore why teachers are totally unprepared to accept in the classroom the various versions of diversity: ethnic, social, cultural. They argue that this is largely due to the way they have been trained and are called upon to educate. In Greek education, the value of homogeneity and the silencing of difference are two
The ugly square
A circle appears in a square world. A six-minute paper cut animation inspired by “The Ugly Duckling”.
“We” and the “others”: teachers’ experiences
The authors describe their experiences from two different educational contexts: a primary school in Athens with 65% Turkish-speaking students, internal migrants from Thrace, and a high school in Thrace with exclusively minority students. They explain how they experienced contact with difference in all its forms (students, parents, fellow teachers) and how the conflicts that daily
The “other” in the classroom: versions of the child-student in contemporary Greek cinema. Exploring the world of the child
This paper explores how versions of one role, the child-student, are represented in contemporary Greek cinema. It analyses the films The Fisherman by Dimitris Spyrou, The Canary Bike by Dimitris Stavrakas, and The Light That Goes Out by Vassilis Douros. The common thread in all three films is the representation of the child-student as “other”.
The teacher who let children dream
A film by Daniel Losset produced by French Public Television (2006) on the activities of the pioneering educator Celestin Freinet during the inter-war period. The film tells the story of Freinet’s efforts, against the establishment and reactionary society, to create an open and democratic school that let children dream and express themselves freely.