How comes to discrimination? Be aware / Jak dochodzi do dyskryminacji? Uświadom sobie

Migration and discrimination of migrants were topics of a two day workshop at the Museum of History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.

We learnt what we need to act against discrimination: knowledge, skills, reflection -> motivation to act. These reminds me of the concept of Swiss Johann Pestalozzi „head, heart and hand” [głowa, serce, ręka]. It means that our mind, feelings and actions should "act" together.

Mechanism of discrimination in short looks like this. / Mechanizm dyskryminacji w skrócie wygląda tak:

Drama as a tool of education of antidiscrimination

Drama can be a very useful tool of education against discrimination. The society of Drama Practitioners STOP-KLATKA conducted a seminar from 19th till 21th January 2015 about different drama techniques. These passionate people are working for social change by using the Applied Drama method and teach working with drama. The workshop aimed in preparing teaching materials about using applied drama for education against discrimination. More about the Association you can read here: http://stop-klatka.org.pl/english/.

Internationa Human Rights Day

On December, 10 is the Internationa Human Rights Day since 1950. This year’s slogan is "Human Rights 365" It encompasses the idea that every day is Human Rights Day.

And for this reason the Center for Development of Education, Batory Fundation and Society for Education against Discrimination 've organised on December, 10 (2014) conference "School without discrimination - safe school".

I presented there the tool of teaching about realtions between minority and majority on example of Jews and Romas within the Open Space.

Jan Karski. Human beings and H/history

Looking for examples of brave but not out of reach people?
Jan Karski was one of them. His life was an inspiration for the conference "Jan Karski. Human beings and H/history. Aims of education for antidiscrimination"

It took place in Polish parlament in November'14, 28-29. 120 teachers and pupils took part on it. You also can do following things: