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OUR OBJECTIVES
The projects we offer are aimed to prevent discriminatory behaviours
by identifying signs of them into the situations we work in. Our
interventions, through suitable precautionary measures, are aimed to fight
intolerance phenomena and represent a primary tool of prevention from the
spread of discriminatory attitudes.
Our aims
 To develop
a common language about education and anti-racism, which also analyzes subjects
as diversity, discrimination, intolerance.
To teach
how to recognize and find in
oneself and in others discriminating and intolerant behaviours.
To develop
and transmit skills to face up to discriminating and intolerant behaviours.
To consider
policies and practices about equality in schools.
To create and sustain
an environment respecting cultural differences, equality and justice
principles.
DIVERSITY EDUCATION
The rising number of
students coming from other countries, the growth of other ethnic groups,
bringing on their own history and traditions, the widening of the concept
of “nation” to the whole Europe, which is itself increasingly
becoming a legislative, economical and cultural point of reference: all suggest
that the image of a “patchwork quilt”, used by Gloria
Ladson Billings to describe the US
society, is the horizon we ourselves are moving to.
Education is the best tool we have to make
the different patches get on with each other, and to revalue the beauty and
richness coming from their diversity and uniqueness.
We aim to help to explore in a respectful
and systematic way our human differences, as well as our similarities.
Human beings are by instinct scared by what they do not know: a dark alley,
a new food, an unexplored space, an unknown face.
As trainers, we have to help to reduce
this fear, finding ways to involve students in activities about diversity
and differences, in order to lay the basis for an Europe where citizens
share a democratic culture, founded on such values as respect, sensitivity,
refuse of violence, equality, individual and collective responsibility.
We organize workshops, conferences,
meetings on specific topics, based on the A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE® Institute
method, in schools and everywhere it may seem useful to enter to make
people aware of racism, prejudice and discrimination.
If you are interested in our activities or you wish to set up a
meeting, a workshop or a seminar in your school or workplace, please
contact us:
Associazione onlus oltreilponte
via Luigi Anelli, 6 20122 Milano
ph/fax. +39.02.36510931
mobile +39.328.8319200
e-mail: info@oltreilponte.net
web: www.oltreilponte.net
blog: www.oltreilponte.org
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