GRUNDTVIG 07GRLP070061C1

1
GRUNDTVIG 07/GR-LP/07-0061/C1

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"

2

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• Title of the workshop
• Workshops in the field of cultural and social
  education for adults working with migrants
  (teachers, trainers, carer) and migrants.
• Kraków, 2008/2009
• Authors
• Kinga Anna Gajda, Bozena Golabek
• Project team
• prof. Zdzislaw Mach, dr Kinga Gajda, Elzbieta
  Mach, Malgorzata Adi-Kolaczek,
• Wojciech Gajda, Bozena Golabek, Agnieszka
  Pierzynska-Mach, Joanna Piasta-Siechowicz,

3

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• Assumption
• education of active citizenship put on
• active participation in the culture
• knowing the cultural differences
• understanding the common cultural heritage
• hermeneutic and intellectual effort to understand
  the new society and its rules
• dialog to learn and teach each other
• solidarity
• we decide to give the migrants the possibility of
  knowing the polish culture and the cultural
  process of reception

4

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• Our partner in workshop is Teatr Nowy
• Small Eoylf is the short performance about family
  relationships. The title Eoylf is handicapped son
  of Rita and Afred. The son is the bone of
  continent between his parents.
• The action of performance is reduced to talking.
  Every event, even the most important, is recalled
  from past times or announced and will take place
  in the future. The action is only the reason to
  present the characters, their relationships and
  their unhapinness.
• Pilot group of migrants
• trainers and teachers working with migrants 10
  persons
• migrants (students, company employees) from the
  United Kingdom, Russia, Canada, The Czech
  Republic, China, The Ukraine, Germany

5
(No Transcript)
6
(No Transcript)
7

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• Workshop step 1
• We took the group of migrants to Teatr Nowy to a
  performance Maly Eyolf (small Eyolf) by Henri
  Ibsen. After the performance we suggested the
  group to take part in workshops in the field of
  cultural and social training basis of individual
  cultural experience and reception of performance

8

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• The aim of workshop
•  
• moulding the positive pattern of behaviour
• moulding the active citizenship
• paying attention to building the European
  identity
• looking for cultural elements useful in building
  the European identity
• counteracting the discrimination and racism

9

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• The basis of three workshops was the idea of The
  Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal (born
  1931)
• Brazilian theater director Augusto Boal
  developed The Theatre of the Oppressed during the
  1950s and 1960s. In an effort to transform
  theater from the "monologue" of traditional
  performance into a "dialogue" between audience
  and stage, Boal experimented with many kinds of
  interactive theater.
• His explorations were based on the assumption
  that dialogue is the common, healthy dynamic
  between all humans, that all human beings desire
  and are capable of dialogue, and that when a
  dialogue becomes a monologue, oppression ensues.
• Theater then becomes an extraordinary tool for
  transforming monologue into dialogue.

10

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED
• is a system of Games and special Techniques that
  aims at developing, in the oppressed citizens,
  the language of the theatre, which is the
  essential human language.
• this form of theatre is meant to be practiced by,
  about and for the oppressed, to help them fight
  against their oppressions and to transform the
  society that engenders those oppressions.
• the word Oppressed- is used in the sense of
  she/he who has lost the right to express his/her
  wills and needs, and is reduced to the condition
  of obedient listener of a monologue.
• it must be used as a tool of fighting against all
  forms class oppression, racism, sexism, and all
  kinds of discrimination.

11

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• The idea of Forum Theatre
• Theatre is a representation and not a
  reproduction of social reality.
• music is the organization of sound in time,
  plastic arts, the organization of colors and
  lines in the space
• theatre is the organization of human actions in
  time and space
• presents a scene or a play that must necessarily
  show a situation of oppression that the
  Protagonist does not know how to fight against,
  and fails. The spect-actors are invited to
  replace this Protagonist, and act out - on stage
  and not from the audience - all possible
  solutions, ideas, strategies. The other actors
  improvise the reactions of their characters
  facing each new intervention, so as to allow a
  sincere analysis of the real possibilities of
  using those suggestions in real life. All
  spect-actors have the same right to intervene and
  play their ideas.
• Forum Theatre is a collective rehearsal for
  reality.

12
Augusto Boal, Rio de Janeiro 2004
13

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF THE OPPRESSED
• She/he transforms reality is transformed by the
  very action of transforming.
• It is not necessary to be a Poet to write a poem,
  but whoever writes a poem becomes a Poet.
• Aims at developing all aesthetic capabilities of
  citizens that have been limited since childhood
  by the authoritarian societies in which we live.
• We do not teach how to do it, but rather try to
  help the oppressed to discover or invent how s/he
  wants to do it, with her/his own ways and
  purposes.
• It is composed of
• word (Poem, Declaration of Identity, Stories)
• image (Sculpture, using clean garbage
  Transformation of well known images to give our
  opinions and feelings about them)

14

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants"
• Workshop step 2
• We suggested three modules of workshops basis on
  The Boal theory
• Module 1
• The participants split into intercultural and
  inter-generation groups, write the main problems
  appearing in the performance. These are
• the other
• egoism
• lack of support in the group
• separation
• egoistic love
• misunderstanding
• difficulties in understanding each others
• doom
• lack of assent to love
• building the relationship

15

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants
• Module 2
• The participants split into intercultural and
  inter-generation group performed the scenes about
  discrimination behaviour
• The spect-actors discussed how the active people
  who participated in this situation should behave
• The participants performed the scenes one more
  time changing the points showed by viewers

16

• "Active Citizenship for Migrants
• The way of managing in conflict situations and
  the way of dissolving the problems without
  agression
• was the next subject of workshops
• The theory of philosopher Alaisdair MacIntyre was
  the basis of this part of workshops
• In the book After Virtue. A Study in Moral
  Theory MacIntyre gave the three reasons of
  impossibility to solve the problems
• inconsummerating the terms appearing in
  argumentation the result impossibility to
  accept counterarguments
• apparent rationality, objectivity, university and
  impersonality
• reaching for arguments coming from different
  sources and using the hybrid language Spanglish

17

• Active Citizenship for Migrants
• After discussion with the migrants we came to
• a conclusion that the reasons of impossibility to
  solve problems
• written by MacIntyre are the reason of the
  conflicts and
• discrimination between migrants and natives.

18

• Active Citizenship for Migrants
• MacIntyre suggested in After Virtue four ways of
  solving the problems
• 1) knowing the social manners and language
  (paying attention to manners and behaviour, their
  tradition and history which should be known)
• 2) knowing the stories and legends of the
  society
• 3) debate asking for and replying to
  questions about the common heritage
• 4) rational justification of social rules
• The basis of workshops were the philosophy of
  French philosopher Gelles Lipovetsky who claimed
  the society is put on imitating, mimesis as well
  and the rule of G.C. Homan who said the common
  interactions make the sympathy between
  participants.

19

• Active Citizenship for Migrants
• Workshops step 2 sequel
• Module 3
• Debate The Participants asked questions about
  the performance and replied to them. Every group
  asked questions and the participants from other
  groups answered.
• The participants asked about the convention of
  reception and written problems
• Module 4
• The participants told the story/legend/myth about
  written problems
• The participants searched the common parts of
  their stories
• Module 5
• The participants performed the scenes about their
  individual history, their future plans and their
  family
• The participants looked for the common parts of
  their stories

20

• Active Citizenship for Migrants
• Conclusion
• The method basis of Boal, MacIntyre, Lipovetsky
  and Homan turn out to be useful in working with
  migrants and trainers, teaches, carer working
  with migrants.
• Advantages of method of workshops
• dialog
• exchange
• the performance is a very useful starting point
• chat
• friendly atmosphere
• talking about objective facts
• lack of criticism, negation (the reception is
  subjective)
• learning and teaching each other about cultural
  differences
• finding the common elements of different cultures
• joking
• interactions between participants from different
  culture and nation

21

• Active Citizenship for Migrants
• Evaluation
• 1) Are the workshops useful in your job,
  according to you?
• 18 persons - yes, they are
• 4 persons - no, they are not
• 2) Are the workshops interesting and clear?
• 22 persons - yes, they are
• 3) Do you think the teaching materials are
  interesting?
• 20 persons - yes, they are
• 2 persons - not, they are not
• 4) Are you going to use the new contact and
  materials for further cooperation/preparation
  of your own projects?

22
Thank you for your attention ?