The overall aim of the training course is to train youth workers, youth leaders to be able to work with different cultural young people, e.g. refugees, migrants, foreign kids or young people coming home from other countries and build up a successful intercultural team locally and European level. To recognise stereotypes, prejudices and prevent or stop social stigmatisation of young people with different cultural background. By using appropriate intercultural communication, being able to understand the communication and behavioural norms, schemes and forms of young people with different cultural background.
Learning objectives of the training course are:
- To get acquainted with cultural differences and its’ impact on people’s behaviour;
- To become multipliers of intercultural education and being able to adapt the knowledge and attitude of intercultural education for the needs of different target groups e.g. working with refuges kids, migrants kids, foreign young people, etc.;
- To be able to work with intercultural team of young people locally and European level;
- To develop youth work competences in order to be able to work with refugee, migrants and foreign young people or young people coming home from abroad;
- To explore typical challenges working with intercultural teams and to invent prevention strategies for challenging situations and how to adapt it according to the needs of different target groups;
- To improve efficient communication in different intercultural situations (e.g. education, business, private life);
- To deepen the knowledge on cultural dimensions as stereotypes and prejudices and its’ influence on the intercultural cooperation;
- To be able to understand and analyse the different behavioural norms, schemes, forms of others cultures. To be able to “read” the messages based on the communication codes of other cultures;
- To be able to handle the possible misunderstandings and challenging situations in intercultural situations;
- To analyse the roles and negative consequences of stereotypes in the lives of young people;
- To explore the process how stereotype can become prejudice then discrimination in the intercultural connections;
- The influence of social stigma on the victims – to explore the typical behaviour patterns of young people who are bullied because of belonging for certain groups e.g. refugees, 2nd generations of migrants, etc.
- To be able to prevent the influence of stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination in intercultural connections.
The methodology of the training course:
The course is strongly based on experiential learning (learning by doing), with adequate time allocated for debriefing and reflection throughout the whole program as the process will be highly personal and aim for attitudinal changes therefore the reflection is very important part of the process (as the educational team is well aware of). Generally, the working methods will be rather non-formal and participative. The methods are chosen in a way to allow for a maximum of substantial learning effects, meet the needs of the group and encourage a high level of participation in a very unique way in the process of the training. It is very important to take the “real-life” cases and the experience of the participants, their organizations and from other youth workers and from the field. The working methods used this training are chosen so that to offer the possibility of equal involvement of each participant, every person being stimulated to dialogue and intercultural learning, to reflection and experiential learning, to activation of personal resources.
Duration: 7 full working days.
The training course is based on https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000147878.
