Description
The Drama Anti-discrimination Academy is an innovative educational project introducing effective and proven method of drama in anti-discrimination education in Poland. It is directed to teachers and anti-discrimination trainers. During 19 months of implementation of the project, 56 teachers will take part in 60-hour cycle of drama anti-discrimination workshops. First, the participants will receive anti-discrimination training in order to identify their own stereotypes/prejudices. During the following lessons they will be acquainted with the method of drama, its usefulness in anti-discrimination school education, and they will develop scenarios of free lessons. The scenarios and other important issues concerning counteracting discrimination in schools will be discussed during seminars, enabling participants of the project to exchange experiences and opinions. The project will culminate in publishing a booklet and preparing a film on usefulness of drama in anti-discrimination education.
Summary of project results
"Research (Society for Anti-Discrimination Education, 2011; Campaign Against homophobia, 2012; Never Again Association, 2012) proves that empathy- and mutual understanding-targeted innovative methods are required in the field of preventing discrimination. International DICE study results prove that applied drama is one such method - yet it remains vastly unknown in Poland. The project purpose was to introduce applied drama to anti-discrimination school curricula. The project allowed 282 teachers from 4 Polish regions (Lublin, Pomeranian, Podkarpackie, and Wielkopolska voivodships) to be taught the use of drama in preventing discrimination. Anti-discrimination trainers working in the formal and informal education systems attended drama method training sessions; 69 teachers attended a 60-hour training course series focusing on the use of drama in preventing discrimination. Two hundred and thirteen teachers participated in 6 webinars on drama, discrimination, and hate speech at school. Regional summary seminars were attended by 139 persons. Project participants drafted 22 sample scripts for drama-based anti-discrimination classes. Eight hundred copies of the “Drama Empowerment"" publication were published. A film describing the drama project and method was produced. Seventeen anti-discrimination trainers and 282 teachers were trained. One hundred and thirty-nine persons were introduced to the drama method during regional seminars; 600 persons were provided with a hard copy of the publication, and 1,041 persons downloaded it from the project website in electronic format."
Summary of bilateral results