Media, archives, storytelling

Do media need archives? What has storytelling to do with archive materials?

Stories holded on archive sources. Archive sources could be included into media narratives on a attractive way, e.g. using storytelling.

There are at least two reasons for it. The stories become "second life" and media don't have to construct content which can be useful and interesting for its audience. They can use ready sources.

These questions were the issuu of the conference and workshop "Learn - Do - Share", on June, 24, 2015, in Warsaw. Read some insights of it.

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:

Teaching human rights and history

Combining human rights and history education can be very useful. One of the common values for both fields is the change. If you analyse history you look mostly for the change and dealing with human rights aimes mostly at bringing change into life.

The Change is also a title of a book wich is being prepared by an international team of scientists in collaboration with practitioners of history education and human rights education. I will upload it here, when it will be finished (at the end of 2015 or at the beginning of 2016)

Textbook "History and human rights"

KARTA Center published the textbook "History and human rights" and translated it into English. You can find the textbook here: http://bit.ly/15Oljrr. I'm the co-editor of the textbook.

Teaching materials to human rights

Teaching human rights is a challenge for people from different fields and institutions. That's why the Centre of Human Rights Education of the University of Teacher Education in Lucerne is organising the Human Rights Education Symposium in Lucerne.

The topic of the Symposium in 2012 was the developing of teaching materials on human rights education. I took part on following workshops:

Stipend of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education

The Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education supports the achievements of students at Polish universities. Not only the scientific results are here important, but also the social activities of students.

More about the conditions which students should fulfiled you can read here in Polish.

For the results of my study of German language and culture I received 2007 also a scholarship. The award ceremony took place in Toruń in Februar 2007.