ÜNDER | Diversity in the Classroom: Teaching Inclusion for Overcoming Prejudices and Discrimination

Diversity in the Classroom: Teaching Inclusion for Overcoming Prejudices and Discrimination


Within the period 28 June 4 July, 2021, Üniversite Öğretim Elemanları Dayanışma Derneği (ÜNDER) will organise a training course "Diversity in the Classroom: Teaching Inclusion for Overcoming Prejudices and Discrimination" in Istanbul, Turkey. The course aims to provide teachers and education staff working in a diverse environment with tools, strategies and best practice to address and promote diversity and tolerance in the classroom for overcoming prejudices and discrimination. It will also help teachers to develop their cultural awareness while giving them the tools and new approaches to teach to a multicultural and ethnically diverse group of students.

The training course will be attended by teachers from our partner Vocational School "Prof. Dr. Asen Zlatarov" from Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria in the framework of their project "Multicultural School: Opportunities and Challenges". The project is under “Erasmus+” program, Mobility for Staff in School Education. The project envisages the inclusion of 5 teachers, as the profile of participants will be defined as a result of a thorough analysis of the critical needs of the teaching staff at the school. By participation in our training, the pedagogical staff of the school will upgrade knowledge and skills in the field of intercultural and inclusive education in order to build a more stable and tolerant environment for school students with diverse backgrounds. The topics that will be addressed are related to the importance of developing intercultural competences, tackling the challenges of our day such as hate speech and stereotyping, raising intercultural awareness and making it an advantage in the teaching process. The thematic fields will also provide the opportunity for the participants to learn about non-formal teaching methods in creating empathy and mutual understanding among other teaching staff and students themselves. Within the training program ÜNDER will organise a study visit in two schools in Istanbul, where the teachers from Bulgaria will have the possibility to exchange experience and share methodology with their Turkish colleagues.