Our project "Media and Teenagers European Citizenship" has been funded with support from the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Programme.
duminică, 30 mai 2010
Our last project meeting in Spain - Malaga
Our final project meeting took place between 13th and 21th May 2010 at Instituto Educacion Secondaria “Miguel Romero Esteo, in Malaga, Spain. It was a great opportunity to meet again the colleagues from all partner schools, share new ideas, plan our future work in detail, visit our Spanish partner school and learn about their local culture. Our Spanish partners welcomed us warmly and offered us a wonderful staying there. We met the Spansh students, talked with them, attended some classes in order to enrich our knowledge about the european educational system. Even if this was the last meeting from the project “Media and Teenagers-European Citizenship”, we, all of the participant teachers established the bases of a new project in which our school will have the great opportunity to be a partner again.
sâmbătă, 8 mai 2010
PROJECT MEETING IN CRAIOVA
The 3rd project meeting of the "Comenius Media and Teenagers European Citizenship" took place in Craiova, Romania between 27th - 31th October 2009.The team project of the Technical College of Arts and Crafts welcomed warmly our friends and partners from Austria, Germany, Italy and Spain.
We had the opportunity to share teaching methods, to discuss about our project activities and also to make our partners discover the Romanian culture, traditions, history and to visit wonderful places. Everyody was very happy and we consider that our activity was a succes!Discriminarea – Discrimination – Discriminazione – Diskriminierung
ROMANIAN
Discriminarea este atunci când o persoană este tratată mai puţin favorabil decât altă persoană într-o situaţie comparabilă datorită rasei sau originii sale etnice, religie sau convingeri, handicap, vârstă sau orientare sexuală.
Un exemplu de discriminare este o ofertă de lucru care menţionează că "persoanele cu handicap nu trebuie să aplice". Însă, în realitate discriminarea îmbracă cele mai subtile forme. De aceea discriminarea indirectă este de asemenea acoperită.
ENGLISH
Discrimination occurs when a person is treated less favourably than another in a comparable situation because of their racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.
An example of discrimination is a job advert, which says "no disabled people need apply." However, in reality discrimination often takes more subtle forms. That’s why indirect discrimination is also covered.
ITALIAN
Vi è discriminazione quando – a parità di situazione – una persona è trattata meno favorevolmente di un’altra a causa della propria origine razziale o etnica, della religione o della professione di fede, di una invalidità, dell’età o del proprio orientamento sessuale.
Un esempio di discriminazione è un annuncio di lavoro che riporti specificamente la dicitura contenente la specificazione “astenersi inabili handicappati”.
Discriminarea este atunci când o persoană este tratată mai puţin favorabil decât altă persoană într-o situaţie comparabilă datorită rasei sau originii sale etnice, religie sau convingeri, handicap, vârstă sau orientare sexuală.
Un exemplu de discriminare este o ofertă de lucru care menţionează că "persoanele cu handicap nu trebuie să aplice". Însă, în realitate discriminarea îmbracă cele mai subtile forme. De aceea discriminarea indirectă este de asemenea acoperită.
ENGLISH
Discrimination occurs when a person is treated less favourably than another in a comparable situation because of their racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation.
An example of discrimination is a job advert, which says "no disabled people need apply." However, in reality discrimination often takes more subtle forms. That’s why indirect discrimination is also covered.
ITALIAN
Vi è discriminazione quando – a parità di situazione – una persona è trattata meno favorevolmente di un’altra a causa della propria origine razziale o etnica, della religione o della professione di fede, di una invalidità, dell’età o del proprio orientamento sessuale.
Un esempio di discriminazione è un annuncio di lavoro che riporti specificamente la dicitura contenente la specificazione “astenersi inabili handicappati”.
GERMAN
Diskriminierung liegt vor, wenn eine Person aufgrund ihrer Rasse oder ethnischen Herkunft, ihrer Religion oder Weltanschauung, einer Behinderung, ihres Alters oder ihrer sexuellen Ausrichtung in einer vergleichbaren Situation eine weniger günstige Behandlung als eine andere Person erfährt. Ein Beispiel für eine Diskriminierung wäre eine Stellenanzeige, in der es heißt, dass Bewerbungen von Menschen mit Behinderungen nicht berücksichtigt werden. In der Praxis nimmt Diskriminierung jedoch häufig subtilere Formen an. Daher beziehen sich die neuen Richtlinien auch auf mittelbare Diskriminierung.
SPANISH
Hay discriminación cuando se trata a una persona de manera menos favorable que a otra en una situación análoga por motivos de origen racial o étnico, religión o convicciones, discapacidad, edad u orientación sexual.
Ejemplo de discriminación: en un anuncio de trabajo se indica: «Absténganse personas con discapacidad».
Sin embargo, la discriminación adopta normalmente formas más sutiles. Por eso se ha incluido la discriminación indirecta.
Ghebaur Virginia – project coordinator
Diskriminierung liegt vor, wenn eine Person aufgrund ihrer Rasse oder ethnischen Herkunft, ihrer Religion oder Weltanschauung, einer Behinderung, ihres Alters oder ihrer sexuellen Ausrichtung in einer vergleichbaren Situation eine weniger günstige Behandlung als eine andere Person erfährt. Ein Beispiel für eine Diskriminierung wäre eine Stellenanzeige, in der es heißt, dass Bewerbungen von Menschen mit Behinderungen nicht berücksichtigt werden. In der Praxis nimmt Diskriminierung jedoch häufig subtilere Formen an. Daher beziehen sich die neuen Richtlinien auch auf mittelbare Diskriminierung.
SPANISH
Hay discriminación cuando se trata a una persona de manera menos favorable que a otra en una situación análoga por motivos de origen racial o étnico, religión o convicciones, discapacidad, edad u orientación sexual.
Ejemplo de discriminación: en un anuncio de trabajo se indica: «Absténganse personas con discapacidad».
Sin embargo, la discriminación adopta normalmente formas más sutiles. Por eso se ha incluido la discriminación indirecta.
Ghebaur Virginia – project coordinator
I’m a European!
“What a boring day!” I said to myself.
“There is no one interested in taking a cab at this hour”.
But then something captured my attention. It was 10 minutes to 6 p.m. when I saw her in front of a very fashionable restaurant. She was a beautiful blond young lady, looking or waiting for something or someone. Her eyes were lightning scanning every person on the street. She seemed a little confused and lost, but in the same time nervous. Looking more carefully at her I saw a big stain of red wine on her cream jacket. Shortly, a man appeared closed to her. He was having some humble gestures, like he was trying to calm her down. After a short discussion he came back into the restaurant. But the lady continued to stay at the restaurant entrance.
When I looked again 2 minutes later she was in the same place smoking another thin cigarette. Then, trying not to seem strongly interested in her behavior, I took the newspaper and start reading. Then…
“Let’s go! Faster please!” a woman voice commanded after slamming the car’s door.
“Where are we going?" I asked looking in the mirror to see who is that polite person. It was that young lady…
“Hey...are you listening to me?" she asked.
“Let’s go!”
“Ok, I am driving to nowhere if you want, but I’ll also start the …”
“To the Majestic Hotel” she quickly added.
She took a deep breath as the taxi drove her away from that restaurant. After a few quiet moments she started talking.
“Outside there were a few taxis lined-up, but from all of them I choosed you. I hope you are okay, I mean you are British, aren’t you? You look like a British person. Being impressed by such a direct approach, I dared to give a quick response:
“If really matters… yes I’m from here” I said with a lost voice. Then the climax came:
“I hate this town. I came here for relaxation and I receive only disagreement concerning my beliefs … I don’t understand them. That incompetent waitress spilled a glass of wine on my jacket. Then she told me that she feels sorry. But I don’t care about her apology. She is an immigrant. I wanted to be fired by her manager in front of me, in my presence. But the manager of the restaurant refused to do it. He is an immigrant too. Everyone who is not from here seems so arrogant. I hate this town. Is full of Europeans…You know what kind of Europeans” she added.
“But we all are Europeans” I interrupted her.
My intervention made her silent for a while, giving me the chance to think at the shortest route to the hotel. My luck! I wanted to get out of this conversation as soon as possible, so I started driving faster than before. The destination was very close, then unexpectedly:
“What are you doing? Do you want to kill me? Why did you passed on yellow light? Do you want to kill me?
“Sorry, I didn’t want to scare you.”
“Sorry! You feel sorry? You are just like that waitress! You did it because you wanted to do it”.
Being intrigued by her words I pressed hard on the breaks. I felt a sudden urge to revenge. The route was finally over. I managed to bring her in front of the hotel.
“You will pay for this! I’ll call to your taxi company! Let’s see who is going to pay for this route. You are so ungrateful, just like that waitress!
While she continued with all the offenses I had finally the courage to intervene and to tell her:
“I’m a European!”
Then I left the hotel parking with a rare feeling, a feeling of doubt. I keep wondering how can someone so beautiful and graceful have such a wheel-deal? Something bothered me very much. That something made me feel as an intruder after a long period of time. I felt repulsion, rejection, objection…
Teacher,
BOBASU ALEXANDRA
“There is no one interested in taking a cab at this hour”.
But then something captured my attention. It was 10 minutes to 6 p.m. when I saw her in front of a very fashionable restaurant. She was a beautiful blond young lady, looking or waiting for something or someone. Her eyes were lightning scanning every person on the street. She seemed a little confused and lost, but in the same time nervous. Looking more carefully at her I saw a big stain of red wine on her cream jacket. Shortly, a man appeared closed to her. He was having some humble gestures, like he was trying to calm her down. After a short discussion he came back into the restaurant. But the lady continued to stay at the restaurant entrance.
When I looked again 2 minutes later she was in the same place smoking another thin cigarette. Then, trying not to seem strongly interested in her behavior, I took the newspaper and start reading. Then…
“Let’s go! Faster please!” a woman voice commanded after slamming the car’s door.
“Where are we going?" I asked looking in the mirror to see who is that polite person. It was that young lady…
“Hey...are you listening to me?" she asked.
“Let’s go!”
“Ok, I am driving to nowhere if you want, but I’ll also start the …”
“To the Majestic Hotel” she quickly added.
She took a deep breath as the taxi drove her away from that restaurant. After a few quiet moments she started talking.
“Outside there were a few taxis lined-up, but from all of them I choosed you. I hope you are okay, I mean you are British, aren’t you? You look like a British person. Being impressed by such a direct approach, I dared to give a quick response:
“If really matters… yes I’m from here” I said with a lost voice. Then the climax came:
“I hate this town. I came here for relaxation and I receive only disagreement concerning my beliefs … I don’t understand them. That incompetent waitress spilled a glass of wine on my jacket. Then she told me that she feels sorry. But I don’t care about her apology. She is an immigrant. I wanted to be fired by her manager in front of me, in my presence. But the manager of the restaurant refused to do it. He is an immigrant too. Everyone who is not from here seems so arrogant. I hate this town. Is full of Europeans…You know what kind of Europeans” she added.
“But we all are Europeans” I interrupted her.
My intervention made her silent for a while, giving me the chance to think at the shortest route to the hotel. My luck! I wanted to get out of this conversation as soon as possible, so I started driving faster than before. The destination was very close, then unexpectedly:
“What are you doing? Do you want to kill me? Why did you passed on yellow light? Do you want to kill me?
“Sorry, I didn’t want to scare you.”
“Sorry! You feel sorry? You are just like that waitress! You did it because you wanted to do it”.
Being intrigued by her words I pressed hard on the breaks. I felt a sudden urge to revenge. The route was finally over. I managed to bring her in front of the hotel.
“You will pay for this! I’ll call to your taxi company! Let’s see who is going to pay for this route. You are so ungrateful, just like that waitress!
While she continued with all the offenses I had finally the courage to intervene and to tell her:
“I’m a European!”
Then I left the hotel parking with a rare feeling, a feeling of doubt. I keep wondering how can someone so beautiful and graceful have such a wheel-deal? Something bothered me very much. That something made me feel as an intruder after a long period of time. I felt repulsion, rejection, objection…
Teacher,
BOBASU ALEXANDRA
OUR HELP WILL HELP THE WORLD!!!
Europe faces two big problems concerning its regard to population: racism and xenophobia. The political debates concerning these problems do not seem to have a good result. They are the cause of the migration of people looking for a job or a place to study, the existence of minorities, the greater number of unemployed people, and the economical crisis ;they all feed racism and xenophobia. This way, the immigrants and the minorities will be disadvantaged in taking the risk to be left out of one country’s population.
Why do we forget to help and respect people like us, around us? Why do we hate all those people who are not from our country? Why can’t we survive peacefully?
We live in an unfair society, being judged for our origin, color, culture or religion?
Foreign children cannot have the same education as the others, they are completely ignored, if they look for a job, they have smaller chances to get hired.
We have to fulfill a task for our future in order to reach a new evolution of our society, we have to build and keep a peaceful world, to respect our rights and responsibilities – all these are important and inseparable aspects for our climate and a good life.
A possible solution is not closing the frontiers of the countries, but to accept our fellow creatures as a human person.
Why do we forget to help and respect people like us, around us? Why do we hate all those people who are not from our country? Why can’t we survive peacefully?
We live in an unfair society, being judged for our origin, color, culture or religion?
Foreign children cannot have the same education as the others, they are completely ignored, if they look for a job, they have smaller chances to get hired.
We have to fulfill a task for our future in order to reach a new evolution of our society, we have to build and keep a peaceful world, to respect our rights and responsibilities – all these are important and inseparable aspects for our climate and a good life.
A possible solution is not closing the frontiers of the countries, but to accept our fellow creatures as a human person.
Dragomir Emilia, C.T.A.M. “Constantin Brâncuşi” - student
Intercultural Education against Racism and Xenophobia
We – the teachers and other staff in education – are prepared to take our share of the responsibility in the awareness-raising work which is now necessary throughout society.
In schools, as in surrounding society, the situation is complicated and worrying. Unemployment, exclusion and poverty are factors of importance in the analysis of the causes of this situation, and they can be regarded as contributing factors to phenomena such as violence, bullying, racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance.
Intercultural Education represents an approach, an attitude which in itself contributes to preventing and counteracting racism and xenophobia among pupils, students, teachers and ather staff. But Intercultural Education is more than that. If an intercultural attitude permeates all situations of learning, inter-personal relations and extracurricular activities, I belive it will contribute to brigning a more open, tolerant, and problem-solving approach into school work.
Obviously, it is important that teachers and other staff act in various concrete ways, e.g. analysing text books, software, curricula, teacher education and legislation; monitoring our own behavoir and that of others, and proposing changes where necessary.
Teacher education, both initial and in-service, must play a key part in fighting racism and xenophobia, and in promoting Intercultural Education and cultural diversity.
Popa Ovidiu - informatics teacher
Fighting against Racism and Xenophobia
For centuries racism and xenophobia were "diseases" that began to take over increasingly more people. Before we think of ways to fight against it we should actually know what racism and xenophobia mean.
Racism has existed throughout human history. It may be defined as the hatred of one person by another or the belief that another person is less than human because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. It has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of nations, and legal codes.
Most people don't know what xenophobia is and how this mental illness destroys an individual’s capacity to behave rationally. Xenophobia is an excessive and irrational fear of anything foreign. This fear is most often of foreign people, places or objects. People who are xenophobic may display fear or even anger toward others who are foreign.
There is one question that we ask ourselves…..”How to fight against racism and xenophobia?” The answer is actually easier than the question.
Racism seems part of our natural tendency as humans. That is the fear of what we don’t understand, what is different from us. And if you ask yourself “What racism is”? Which is the first thought that comes to your mind? Well, I think that….Racism is really nothing more than Xenophobia taken to a harmful and frequently to a more violent conclusion.
What are the causes of racism? I have to admit even if I don’t like it that the strongest cause is the fear, the simple fear of unknown. And then is Ignorance….we focus on differences and attach negative attributes to them because we simply do not understand. We do not understand strange food, strange rituals and strange beliefs.
Have you ever thought about that before? You say you try to fight against racism to combat xenophobia, but, have you ever thought that you, yourself are a racist? You are a racist when you judge your classmate because of his clothes. You are a racist when you don’t talk with your roommate because he dyed his hair is pink. You are a racist just because you look at those around you and judge them by their appearances.
So how then do I think we should go about fighting about racism and xenophobia? My answer is one that you’ve heard so many times before: Education.
We are not born with our prejudices. We acquire them. As children we are surrounded by millions of people, and, imitating, we get to do the same things as they do. Parents think that their children learn to respect when, in fact, they only learn to judge people around them by their defects, and never look at themselves.
Racism has existed throughout human history. It may be defined as the hatred of one person by another or the belief that another person is less than human because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. It has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of nations, and legal codes.
Most people don't know what xenophobia is and how this mental illness destroys an individual’s capacity to behave rationally. Xenophobia is an excessive and irrational fear of anything foreign. This fear is most often of foreign people, places or objects. People who are xenophobic may display fear or even anger toward others who are foreign.
There is one question that we ask ourselves…..”How to fight against racism and xenophobia?” The answer is actually easier than the question.
Racism seems part of our natural tendency as humans. That is the fear of what we don’t understand, what is different from us. And if you ask yourself “What racism is”? Which is the first thought that comes to your mind? Well, I think that….Racism is really nothing more than Xenophobia taken to a harmful and frequently to a more violent conclusion.
What are the causes of racism? I have to admit even if I don’t like it that the strongest cause is the fear, the simple fear of unknown. And then is Ignorance….we focus on differences and attach negative attributes to them because we simply do not understand. We do not understand strange food, strange rituals and strange beliefs.
Have you ever thought about that before? You say you try to fight against racism to combat xenophobia, but, have you ever thought that you, yourself are a racist? You are a racist when you judge your classmate because of his clothes. You are a racist when you don’t talk with your roommate because he dyed his hair is pink. You are a racist just because you look at those around you and judge them by their appearances.
So how then do I think we should go about fighting about racism and xenophobia? My answer is one that you’ve heard so many times before: Education.
We are not born with our prejudices. We acquire them. As children we are surrounded by millions of people, and, imitating, we get to do the same things as they do. Parents think that their children learn to respect when, in fact, they only learn to judge people around them by their defects, and never look at themselves.
PIELESTEANU MIHAELA - STUDENT
ARTICLES WRITTEN BY THE TEAM PROJECT OF C.T.A.M. "CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI" Craiova - Romania
The teachers and the students of Technical College of Arts and Crafts "Constantin Brancusi" worked, during the classes of Romanian language, English, Italian, Informatics and Design, used their creativity to design the final products of our project.
As the subjects our project "Media and Teenagers European Citizenship" are: media education and combating rasism and xenofobia, students and teachers of our school wrote articles, short stories and fairy tales related to the topics mentionned.
Here are the best of them:
"OUR HELP WILL HELP THE WORLD!!!" - Dragomir Emilia, student
"Fighting against Racism and Xenophobia" - Pielesteanu Mihaela, student
"Discriminarea – Discrimination – Discriminazione – Diskriminierung" - Ghebaur Virginia, project coordinator
"Intercultural Education against Racism and Xenophobia" - Popa Ovidiu, teacher
"I'm a European!" - Bobasu Alexandra, teacher
As the subjects our project "Media and Teenagers European Citizenship" are: media education and combating rasism and xenofobia, students and teachers of our school wrote articles, short stories and fairy tales related to the topics mentionned.
Here are the best of them:
"OUR HELP WILL HELP THE WORLD!!!" - Dragomir Emilia, student
"Fighting against Racism and Xenophobia" - Pielesteanu Mihaela, student
"Discriminarea – Discrimination – Discriminazione – Diskriminierung" - Ghebaur Virginia, project coordinator
"Intercultural Education against Racism and Xenophobia" - Popa Ovidiu, teacher
"I'm a European!" - Bobasu Alexandra, teacher
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