Multiculturalism and Tolerance Education.
Workshops For Children
may - june 2006

ORGANIZERS:
ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

COORDINATORS:
Karolina Marczak
Agnieszka Marcyjaniak

PARTICIPANTS:
CHILDREN 6 -8 AGE

TARGETS:
Promoting and telling children about ideals of freedom, justice, equality, equity, and human dignity. Preparing children for their responsibilities in an interdependent world. It values cultural differences and affirms the pluralism that children, their communities, and teachers reflect. Multicultural education is a process that help children in their early age to develop a positive self-concept by providing knowledge about the cultures, and contributions of diverse groups. In the same way it help them to understand and tolerate diversity that surround them. Our target is to teach them about tolerance, respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human. Tolerance understood as a harmony in difference. In modern world multicultural education especially children from the earliest age is the essencial element which help children to communicate and to live in our society. This workshops will become starting piont in peaceful co-existence. Our children taught to tolerate and accept, will take their first step in the future with any fears or prejudices. They will be ready to learn from others without giving up their own believes