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La problématique centrale que cette formation a l’ambition de poser consiste en la reconnaissance de l’obligation impérieuse de réfléchir à la mémoire commune que les européens partagent, parfois malgré eux.

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Learning history or evaluating the political and social events in the community, we always evaluate events from the side-lines. We do not investigate the reasons that determined people's actions in different critical situations. When we compare our own behaviour in various situations with the actions of historical personalities, we can better understand why they acted the way they acted. Knowing these decision-making mechanisms, we can influence the peoples’ behaviour around us to prevent future crimes against humanity.

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The aim of this unit is to introduce learners to the concept of a totalitarian mind-set so that they can work on education and prevention of escalation of this way of thinking in the classrooms afterwards.

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Remembrance of atrocities conducted in human research during the Third Reich makes us think about the limits of humanity. The primary task of this unit is not to describe once again the horrors that people suffered but to teach about prevention of crimes against humanity by avoiding transgression of human rights in science.

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Behaviour toward minorities and personal values are perceived as causes of discrimination and intolerance.

This training unit describes the causes of why people, more often young people, behave and react against minority groups in the manner they do.

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Having as a given that representations reflect and at the same time play a major part in the formation of power relations and our personal consciousness and ethos I will use the representations of the ‘Other’ in texts and in films in order to create empathy towards the victims and critical thinking towards totalitarian solutions or power.

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The training unit will focus on how the collaboration and complicity, the obedience and compliance of ordinary people in ideologies, like the one of Nazis, had tragic consequences for millions of people. Using the historical context of the Holocaust, the general purpose of this unit is to develop and strengthen competencies for an active citizenship in order to prevent crimes against humanity.

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Expected outcomes

• Willingness to act and encourage others to act against discrimination, prejudices, stereotypes and injustice
• Acceptance of diversity as a positive value for the environment and the survival of humankind
• Aptitude to cope with complex issues and to avoid one-dimensional answers.
• Understanding of how cooperation can help prevent conflict, discrimination and violence.
•  Understanding of the subjective nature of all knowledge of self and others

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One of the darkest chapters in human history is the Holocaust. How can we help teachers to explore the problems related to such difficult issues? How to provide information about causes, contexts and consequences of the Nazis’ terror for the next generations? How to prevent it in the future? The most successful way to answer these questions is trainings and lessons that encourage participants to think for themselves, ask questions and engage in critical thinking about difficult issues of human history.

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This activity addresses teachers that would like to encourage a more student-centered curriculum in Shoah studies. History is not a set of knowledge to be transmitted from the teacher’s mind to the students’. Understanding human choices during the Nazi regime and Shoah can make our students more sensitive when they are asked to make difficult choices and to face ethical dilemmas today.

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The general theme of this TU is emphatic listening.

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The focus of this unit is on the prevention of "hate speech" through class activities. Its aim is to explore the roots and the branches of "hate speech" against humanity.

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These activities explore the topic of exclusion, which is experienced not only in the classroom, but also outside the classroom. The question is not how to eliminate this phenomenon, but how to protect oneself in the face of group pressure and how to deal with opinions imposed by one’s entourage. The opinions may concern people and actions. It is impossible to eliminate labelling; however it is possible to see the consequences of labelling and efforts to exclude others.

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History school textbooks, as well as textbooks used for other social subjects, do not write at great length about people’s individual fates, even less so about people’s choices in the historical context of the Holocaust. In this training unit the participants will be involved in cooperative learning activities and delve into the importance of teaching about choices and moral dilemmas of people in the past. By analysing the material dealing with various choices and consequences thereof they will delve into the complexity of human behaviour in extraordinary war circumstances and see if they can arrive at a final answer to the issue.

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This educational programme provides students with a definition, historical background, and basic information about Human Rights, the International Refugee Regime and the global nature of forced displacement.

This educational programme aims to encourage students to see refugees and forced migrants as more than just numbers in need of aid, but as the people that they are. Students watch the accompanying videos and complete worksheets and activities.

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