Description
The project aims at the need to change abusive behaviours of teachers and students towards children from vulnerable groups (children with disabilities, roma children, children from poor families) as discrimination which can reach the point of school exclusion, stigmatization, labelling, violence and bullying. The project will promote basic values of democratic society by eliminating discriminatory behaviours among students and teachers, by: - training 40 teachers, 40 school counsellors and 20 volunteering peer-educators with regards to the protection of children’s rights and the promotion of democratic values în schools and highschools; - psychological counselling for 200 vulnerable children and victims of discrimination, meant to facilitate their integration în school communities; - developing non-discriminatory behaviours at 5000 students in 20 schools and highschools in Bucharest, through peer-education activities which will be coordinated by the volunteers trained in the project.
Summary of project results
The project tackled the necessity of changing abusive behaviours of teachers and students towards children from vulnerable groups (children with disabilities, roma children, children from families living in poverty, etc.), such as discrimination, stigmatization, labelling, violence and bullying. The project aimed at promoting basic values of democratic society, such as tolerance, equality of chances, equality of rights and eliminating discriminatory behaviours among students and teachers, by (1) training 40 teachers, 40 school psychologists and 40 volunteering peer-educators in the protection of children’s rights and the promotion of democratic values in schools and high-schools; (2) providing psychological counselling to 200 vulnerable children and victims of discrimination, and facilitating their integration in school communities; (3) developing non-discriminatory attitudes and behaviours of 5000 students in 20 schools and high-schools from Bucharest, through peer-education activities. As a result of the training programme, the school psychologists identified in their schools children coming from vulnerable groups and developed counselling sessions with them, supporting them in identifying ways of overcoming the difficulties they were facing. Each psychologist provided written case studies for five children. A round table event, attended by representatives of the partner organisations, together with school psychologists and teachers trained in the project was organised. The participants presented the way the project has been implemented in schools, and also the situations of discrimination they found and the approach used to support children overcome these situations. During the final event of the project, the promoter provided the necessary environment so that the children could share their experience as peer educators, especially through drawings and paintings, explaining how they felt as peer-educators. They outlined the utility of the information received during the training programme and the needs the children have in order to overcome the difficulties they face at school.
Summary of bilateral results