Esta asociación de aprendizaje entre ONGs de Alemania, Turquía y España ofrece la posibilidad a profesionales de la educación inter- y transcultural de compartir experiencias y de fomentar la cooperación internacional. Centramos nuestro trabajo en áreas rurales que están caracterizados por un número reducido de inmigrantes y pocas oportunidades de movilidad internacional. En estas áreas, dónde habitualmente los programas interculturales se dirigen a los inmigrantes, los prejuicios, la xenofobia y el racismo van en aumento, por lo que queremos desarrollar programas educativos para la población rural con el fin de reforzar los valores de la diversidad, la tolerancia y la democracia.
Objetivos:
- promover una educación innovadora
a través del intercambio y de la interacción con organizaciones experimentadas en
el trabajo internacional y la educación inter- y transcultural.
- implementar actividades
educativas a nivel local y desarrollar estrategias de difusión.
- documentar y difundir actividades,
métodos, materiales y teorías innovadoras.
- fomentar la creación y
consolidación de redes a locales e internacionales.
Neglected areas – innovative cultural education in rural and cultural homogeneous areas
Xenophobia, consolidation of prejudices and affection to extremism, like Anti-Semitism, Anti-Arabism, Nationalism and Racism are increasing overriding in rural areas, which are usually characterized by a small amount of inhabitants with different cultural backgrounds (immigrants, refugess, students, employees, etc.) and therefore a limited cultural exchange and contact among the inhabitants. The global trends like international mobility, transnational networking, coalescence of the European Union, cultural diversity due to a history of immigration movements, individual choice of (sub-)cultural lifestyles due to decreasing cultural normative´s seem to affect these regions less than other regions.
Usually in these areas educational programmes pay attention to the minority of migrants. The motivation of the "cultural" homogeneous population to participate on international and -cultural educational programmes in these areas are low and the implementation in educational structures is challenging. Developing inter- and transcultural competencies in these areas means to widen horizons and to reflect on cultural identities in order to offer new opportunities of personal and social development. For these areas the mainly academically discussed concepts of „transculturality“ and „diversity“ point out promising toeholds for cultural education - especially to work with the seemingly more homogeneous population on cultural diversity. Therefore, organisations of political and cultural education should analyse, create new and improve their theoretical and practical procedure of cultural education along these concepts in those regions. This learning partnership with it´s participating partner organisations from Spain, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey will develop educational programmes for cultural education measures in rural areas to overcome xenophobia, extremism and prejudices along the innovative concepts of „transculturality“, „diversity“ and valuable concepts of intercultural education.