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The Teenager Clubs of Tolerance
is the pilot project for informal intercultural education amongst young representatives of the national communities of Ukraine and Moldova: Jews, Poles, Lithuanians, Hungarians, Germans, Romanians, Moldovans, Volga Tatars, Armenians, Ukrainians, Crimean, Tatars, Russians, Greeks, Byelorussians, Bulgarians.
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The club unites the efforts of national minorities of Ukraine to combat xenophobia and anti-Semitism and to provide tolerance education for youngsters.
Geography of the project: 4 cities of Ukraine: Kyiv, Lviv, Mariupol, Simferopol and Chisinau (Moldova).
Target group: teenagers from national minorities of Ukraine and Moldova. Peer-guides of the traveling exhibition “Sources of tolerance” also take part in the project. |
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Our aims are:
to unite the efforts of national minorities of Ukraine to combat xenophobia and anti-Semitism,
- to provide informal intercultural education for teenagers
- to create a peer-leaders’ network that promotes the idea of tolerance;
- to make teenagers familiar with the basic human rights as written in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations after World War II;
to promote the values of tolerance, positive attitude to the differences,
equality, dignity among teenagers.
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Teenagers from different national minorities meet once a week and take part in the following activities:
Section “Psychology of tolerance and ethno-psychology”;
Section “Country studies, history of people, religions, personality in history”;
Section “Ethno-culture and art crafts”;
School for young tutors for the ‘Sources of Tolerance’ Camp;
Debates – discussion and rhetoric training. |
Teenagers are engaged not only with cognitive methods, but with visual and creative ones as well. Art sections deal with the culture of different nations, studying and comparing the national folk elements and symbols.
Participants of the school for young tutors develop and conduct lessons devoted to the tolerance topics at secondary schools.
Teachers of civics are welcome to get consultations and materials on intercultural tolerance education in our clubs.
The schedule of work:
Weekly meetings at the weekend club in different sections (see above);
Monthly meeting with interesting people;
Monthly walking-tour on the cultural memorials of the nations living in the native city.
The methods of work:
Interactive form of teaching;
Mini-group work;
Case-study;
Peer-guides training
Lecture blocks.
Special attention is given to solving problems in a tolerant way.
The club programme provides also the work with secondary school teachers, who take part in lessons, meetings and “cultural walking tours” and use the knowledge they received in their teaching.
The project team involves:
Professional psychologists;
Tutors of the inter-ethnic “Sources of Tolerance” camp;
Historians, inter-ethnic relations specialists;
Culture studies specialists, teachers of the folk songs, dances, theater.
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