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The melting iceberg – Learn to swim in the sea of ..
The melting iceberg – Learn to swim in the sea of diversity and ambiguity!
Date du début: 1 août 2014,
Date de fin: 31 mai 2015
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Interculturality and intercultural learning are essential and unavoidable issues on the field of European Youth Work. However,
the notion of ?culture? and ?Intercultural Learning? as applied in the practice of the European youth field is too static and fails to
address important dimensions threatening social cohesion: social injustice, discrimination, power relations, ambiguous identities.
It also takes too little into account what migration and globalization general had as impact on the understanding of ?culture?,
?identity? and ?intercultural learning?.
Our project aimed to stimulate critical reflection on the topic, and encourages our participants to to look behind their
understanding of culture and Intercultural Learning, and to experience what it means to be diversity conscious and able to deal
with ambiguity and change. This way, the project provides the opportunity and space to critically review the educational and
youth work practice of participants when it comes to intercultural learning.
The Melting Iceberg invited 20 participants for this adventurous journey from 5 European organizations. The organization and
their participants are working in the field of youth work, social cohesion and diversity. Their common point is that they have all
identified that the present understanding of intercultural learning and the methods which follow are unapt to deal with the new
forms of identity which are forming as a consequence of the increasing migration and globalization in Europe. Therefore, they
were willing and able to take part in a training which challenges the present understanding of intercultural learning and
implement their learning outcome through their organizational work after the training. Finally, the partnering organizations
completes each other concerning their different fields of actions, creating a desired syngergy for the project.
The participants were representing 3 different generation. We expressed the expectation of equal gender distribution and
discussed with the partners how this can be ensured during the recruitment process. Participants motivation and learning needs
were inquired via an application form, while the impact of the project will be measured and recorded by the evaluation form that
was filled in after the participation.
The approach and methodology of the course was based on consolidated practice of non-formal learning that is informed largely by experiential learning as well as constructivist learning. It put great emphasis on the methods coming from the developing
practice of the diversity ? conscious approach as well as dealing with ambiguity and change.
By implementing the project we aimed that partner organizations gain a greater understanding of globalization and migration and
the consequences these have on identity shaping and how to deal with it in an ambiguos way. We also believe that the new
knowledge and methods was expending their understanding and engagement of their working field, and that the target groups of
the participating organizations became better equipped and more able to deal with ambiguity and exercise a more
diversity-conscious approach.
On an European level, we believe our training contributed to the growing notion of the need of a more diversity-conscious
approach by spreading new methods through Salto Toolbox, existing networks of the respective partnering organizations in
Hungary, Lithuania, Germany, Austria, and Italy through the people participating in the training.
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