Since 2005, SAD offers workshops on intercultural coexistence to secondary school students. The youth learn to deal constructively with differences and prejudices, and are sensitized to issues surrounding integration and migration.

Today’s world is marked by globalization and migration, and contact with people with foreign and unfamiliar traditions, values, and beliefs is an unavoidable everyday occurrence. In order to ensure that the meeting of people with different views and attitudes does not lead to any tensions, it is important to promote communication and the intercultural competence within a society and to develop common problem-solving strategies.

This education and sensitization work constitutes an important function of the public school system, in which teachers are often confronted with new challenges and expectations. An experienced team in the area of intercultural education at SAD, offers workshops for schools at the secondary level which can be carried out through various interchangeable modules.

Project Course

The topic emphases (migration, racism, intercultural communication, handling of differences and judgments, etc.) of the workshops are discussed with the teachers or school officials and arranged according to needs and interests. The workshops include short theoretical inputs, role-playing, group work, exercises, and topic-related group discussions. Aside from receiving important information on a particular topic, the participants are confronted with their own prejudices and the resulting behavior, and awareness of constructive and differentiated thought and behavior patterns is raised. The workshop can be held as an introduction and input for long-term projects or project weeks, or as a training course in it’s own right.

Goals

• The participants acquire relevant knowledge on the topics of migration, integration, discrimination, prejudice, racism, etc.
• The participants are confronted with their own attitudes about what constitutes “foreign” and are sensitized to other behavior and thought patterns.
• The participants acquire personal experience through role-playing in reference to exclusion, prejudice, and discrimination.
• The participants are equipped with instruments for dealing constructively with differences, prejudice, and racism, which they can use in practical exercises.

Target audience

The workshops are directed at youth between the ages of 13 and 17 in all types of schools. However, they can also be carried out in youth centers and other such sites.

Dr. Niklaus Eggenberger-Argote
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