Petra Gregorčič Mrvar, PhD, and Jana Kalin, PhD, of the Department of Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Arts, in the implementation of the workshop raise the question of how young people (students) understand and deal with cultural diversity at school.
They highlight the question how young people (secondary school students) understand cultural diversity at school and how they cope with it.
In this context, they use 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, look for answers to how we cope with such challenges.
The activity consists of a card game (Barnga), reflection and discussion. The main aim of the activity is 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.
The coordinators also pay attention to the discussion of problem and conflict situations, in which it is necessary to use strategies of consideration of the other, coping with the expectations of others, negotiation and reconciliation of different opinions in order to achieve goals, etc.
The clash of different rules, views, opinions, etc. often leads to disagreements and misunderstandings between different individuals or groups, so the students and coordinators try to answer the questions of how we individually and collectively deal with these challenges.
The workshop is designed in such a way that the students participate very actively in the card game as well as in the reflection and discussion, and they conclude the activity with associations about the topic at hand, such as: interesting, new, angry, fun, educational, etc.
The workshop is suitable for secondary schools.
Coordinators: Petra Gregorčič Mrvar, PhD, and Jana Kalin, PhD, Faculty of Arts