Monday morning starts with the lecture of Spanish Group.The following topics were covered during the lecture. At our lecture, we tried to develop a new vision for citizenship education and European values, related to non-formal educational agents and the third sector of social action.
We begin with a review of basic concepts related to education, European initiatives in this regard and the different educational models that can be found; continue to introduce non-formal education, its characteristics and its implications in the development of the community and people, and ended by relating these concepts with the Third Sector and Social Action NGOs and critical social movements involved in working with groups at risk of exclusion, disability and community development.
Data concerning the main lines of research in Europe in this respect, as well as the latest figures on volunteering, employability and generate economic wealth were presented.
In our conference, a small video about different ways of understanding education was seen as professionals, creating a rich debate in which the views of other countries were provided.
Reference was also made to what European values are and how they can be developed in different contexts, with a cultural, ethnic or religious diversity and how we can act depressed or groups at risk contexts.
We conclude with some questions about what solutions we can provide for this, and what actions should be prioritized to create a genuine European citizenship.
In our workshop we conducted a group dynamics used in social psychology and the psychology of groups. The main purpose of this is to realize of the processes of inclusion – exclusion which occur daily basis in the different groups that we belong and how it affects the development of shared values.
To do this, we divide the large group into intermediate groups of 10-12 people and distributed around the room, by naming a representative or leader.
After the group is formed, it must exclude one of the participants. This person could not communicate with anyone and should be completely isolated without participating in anything. Meanwhile, the group continued with normal activities, and planned rest. For 10 minutes they had to find reasons why they had excluded that person.
The excluded person, at the same time should think about the reasons that could be used to exclude it.
Over time, each group explained their reasons and feelings generated by carrying out the action; and subsequently, the excluded person.
We conclude by reflecting on the everyday processes that tend to exclude individuals or groups based on our beliefs, prejudices, values or other reasons.
In the afternoon Turkish workshop was conducted.Turkish workshop was composed of three parts.The first session was cultural and in this part after a video about Turkey, a traditional Turkish instrument “saz” was played by one of the Turkish students as a welcoming saying.A quiz about Turkey was carried out and the cultural part ended with a short presentation about the basic facts about Turkey. The second part ,it was time for the academic activities. This part carried out in 6 different stations.Students were divided into groups and they were supposed to visit 6 stations by one one.In each station they were supposed join the scneraio given in that station.They acted acording to the topic of the station.The topics were choosen to give them the chance to show their respect for diversity.The aim of the academic activity was putting the theory into the practice in terms of diversity.The third part continued with an art activity ,at first step the participants listened to a song and they chose 60 lettars from the song they listened.Than they were asked to write as many words as they can with these letters about the citizenship and democracy.In the next step,they wrote a slogan with the words they have written.At the end of the activity,it was time for the painting !Each group was given a strecther and some colors ,they designed their stretcher as they wished and they wrote the slogan which they formed before on the top of the stretcher .
