Description
This project is very needed due to general needs of gender development education within Roma community on basic school level. The aim of this project is developing and implementing interactive experiential-learning program for 50 teachers and pupils of 4 elementary schools, prepared and implemented in cooperation with experts on civil society development, gender equality, anti-discrimination and promote an equal opportunities topics. The intention is to instill in children values which could immediately apply in their daily lives and to spread immediately further in their community. The proposed project includes sensibilisation activities reinforcing children and young people in education for human rights and gender equality, prevention of abuse, bullying and gender based violence as well as activities designed to prevent homophobic and transphobic hate speech and hate crimes. The project also includes activities - 30 experiential leraning and workshops, 3 local school campaigns and 2 roundtables to strengthen political and economic participation of Roma women and girls and women and girls experiencing multiple discrimination. The main benefitors of project are young Roma children. Roma communities as well as all civil society within Slovak republic will benefit from the outputs of this project. Project is implemented as pilot one and it brings lessons learned for the other schools how to deal with such important topic as gender ones are. Project is implemented in partnership with 2 organisations which bring best practice knowledge transfer and creating of new ideas in innovative approach of sensitive topics learning within standard basic school”s education program.
Summary of project results
The project is based on the current situation of the whole society (the rise of extremism and hate speech within society) and needs to develop themes of active citizenship in a democratic society. The mission of this project was to instill primary pupils - future Roma voters / leaders – to let them know of their human and civil rights as well as the electoral values and thus strengthen their electoral literacy through experiential learning practical. The project responds directly to poor knowledge of young people (especially Roma pupils) in the field of civic values and democratic principles. Sustainability of the project is to ensure quality outputs of the project, namely: provided educational and methodological materials and trained and motivated teachers schools (a total of more than 50 teachers in four primary schools in Slovakia, schools have been selected as a pilot ones). The aim of the project was the development and implementation of interactive-experiential tool for the development of civic values and attitudes of Roma pupils. It has a direct impact in changing attitudes and sensitizing topics with teachers and pupils of primary schools with a special focus to Roma communities. The indirect impact was through informing the general professionals and the general public about the issue and its importance, which may also contribute to changing attitudes and induce positive activism in this group of people. Target group (teachers, students, professionals and the general public) has been actively involved in the project through participation in professional activities - training, workshops, discussion groups, roundtables. There were involved two partners (Central European Institute for management and development, SMART) during implementation of the project. Both partners have actively contributed with their expertise and experience. Partners actively assisted in the preparation and implementation of all project activities, e.g. they were preparing materials and gave comments on the prepared teaching materials and methodologies. The partnership had a significant impact on the outputs of the project. Partners contributed actively mainly with their experience in working with marginalized Roma communities. They have also transfered the best practice experience from already completed projects.
Summary of bilateral results