They highlighted the question how young people (secondary school students) understand cultural diversity at school and how they cope with it.
In this context, they used the term “culture” both in the sense of encountering individuals or groups of different cultural and language backgrounds, value and religious orientations and in the sense of microcultures appearing within a particular culture.
Culture clashes often result in disagreements and a lack of understanding between different (micro)cultures.
Therefore, together with the students, Petra Gregorčič Mrvar, PhD, and Jana Kalin, PhD, looked for answers to how we cope with such challenges.
The activity consisted of a card game (Barnga), reflection and discussion. The main aim of the activity was to encourage students to reflect on their attitudes and behaviour in dealing with diversity and different rules that surround us in school and in our daily lives.
They focused on discussing problem and conflict situations, where it is necessary to use strategies of consideration of the other, dealing with the expectations of others, negotiating and reconciling different opinions to achieve goals, etc. They realised that the clash of different rules, views, opinions, etc. often causes disagreements and misunderstandings between different individuals or groups, and they tried to answer the questions of how we individually and collectively deal with these challenges.
The students participated very actively in the card game as well as in the reflection and discussion, and they concluded the activity with associations on the topic: interesting, new, angry, fun, educational, etc.
Coordinators: Petra Gregorčič Mrvar, PhD, and Jana Kalin, PhD, Faculty of Arts
