Portugal
Practice 1
PRACTICE 1
Teachers from the school Dr. Azevedo Neves of Amadora (Lisbon, Portugal) attended Monica Corrigan’s training course on Intercultural Education and they developed the following good practices with the main objectives of managing conflicts and boost the involvement of the educational community in the students’ lives.
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We reinforced our work in the promotion of integration and promoted the development of projects with students with the intervention of several teachers, which are called DAC’s (Domains of curriculum autonomy), and different sessions and workshops with the students as well as the celebration of the Diversity Week.
As members of the Portuguese Network of Schools for Intercultural Education we are working on the assessment of the current situation of our school, analysing the needs of our target in order to promote learning and teaching approaches that consider interculturality in its core.
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This process goes from presenting a solid proposal to the board of the school to the involvement of the different Class Councils (Citizenship and other disciplines), Erasmus projects and collaboration with local NGO’s always integrating all Departments of the school.
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PRACTICE 2
My name is Tomás Berger and I took part on the Intercultural Education Training Course delivered by Monica Corrigan because I work in a local association with vulnerable groups and I wanted to get some new skills and competencies to improve my work.
After the intercultural training, I elaborated an action plan in which families from different origins who have young teenager would get together for a day. This dynamic would work in two parts where in the morning the young people would get together and there would be group dynamics in which they would discover the differences and similarities between them. Like for example:
• Through statements about issues in the daily lives of young people in which they would disagree or agree
• Through introducing themselves and explaining their origins and religions
• Through raising social discussions on themes and issues that are important to young people such as marriage, abortion, gender equality…
• Through art, music or anything creative that each of them likes. Because then they could see that what they like may be the same thing.
During the afternoon, the parents of the young people would arrive, and cook typical dishes from their origins. They would cook together with the children of another family so that they could see the similarities and differences that exist in their kitchen and that of families from another origin.
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At the end of the day they would eat together all the dishes showing all of them how they have so much in common also the differences between them.
PRACTICE 3
My name is Patrícia Canhoto, I am a youth worker and artist, I have participated in the intercultural education training course run by Monica Corrigan and because of that I decided to create a project that would promote interculturality through the arts and have an impact on my local community.
This project is based on the idea that I believe that the arts are a fundamental element in building values and traditions and therefore culture and community. The name chosen for the project is "Arte do bairro" - dissemination of performing arts and visibility of emerging artists.
From the dynamics developed and worked during the intercultural training course, where we developed an action plan, with all the steps to follow, we thought that this idea could have a real projection and we decided to submit an application to the ESC programme, since the objectives fit perfectly with the points that this programme wants to achieve.
