“School Without Prejudice” (“Szkoła bez uprzedzeń”) is a series of workshops for people working with children and young people: teachers, form tutors, carers, psychologists, school counsellors and educators in out-of-school education. The training consists of three modules: an anti-discrimination workshop, an intercultural competence workshop and the “School Without Homophobia” workshop.
The workshops build the knowledge and skills of people working with children and young people in the face of growing peer violence, hate speech and other threats related to exclusion and discrimination. The content is grounded in the current social context and addresses the challenges most commonly faced by those working with young people, such as cultural identity and psychosexual development. Research shows that xenophobia and homophobia, along with classism (discrimination based on economic status), are the most common forms of discrimination in Polish schools.
The training will help participants learn, among other things: how the mechanism of discrimination works, how to avoid reproducing stereotypes and prejudices about minority groups in their work with young people, how to respond to prejudice-motivated violence, and how to talk to pupils about minorities with confidence and competence.
Facilitators: Ewa Jupowiecka (Johanneum Novum, Nomada Association) and Alina Szeptycka (Kultura Równości Association)
Registration: szkolabezuprzedzen@gmail.com
Type of event: workshop
Who it is for: people working with children and young people
Maximum number of participants: 15
Registration: szkolabezuprzedzen@gmail.com
Type of event: workshop
Who it is for: people working with children and young people
Maximum number of participants: 15
Dr Ewa Jupowiecka – cultural studies scholar, researcher, and trainer in intercultural and anti-discrimination education. She runs training courses and workshops on human rights education, countering prejudice-motivated violence and teaching children with a migration background. She works at the Nomada Association for the Integration of a Multicultural Society as an educator and intercultural interpreter. She has co-authored publications on multiculturalism and the integration process.
Alina Szeptycka – Polish philologist, graduate of the Holistic Trainers’ School and anti-discrimination educator. Co-chair of the Wrocław Council for Equal Treatment to the Mayor, Jacek Sutryk, and member of the Wrocław Women’s Council. She works at the Kultura Równości association, running educational and cultural activities and coordinating Równe Miejsce – the LGBT+ Centre Wrocław. She works with the Katarynka Foundation as an expert on culture accessible to people with disabilities.
Dialogopolis is delivered as part of the ReSTART project, co-financed by the National Programme of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) and the state budget.
