Karmøy
skole-og kulturetat (Department of Education and Culture), Pedagogisk Senter
Karmøy, NO
Karmøy is a municipality on the west coast of Norway just north of
Stavanger. There are 37 000 inhabitants in the municipality, 5500 pupils in the
age group 6-16, and about 590 teachers in its 30 schools. The smallest school
has six pupils, the largest just over 400. There are 21 languages spoken in
schools and 3.5% of the school population is composed of pupils from ethnic
minorities, refugees and asylum seekers.
The main working areas for the Educational Advisory Service are:
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To strengthen educational
innovation in the schools
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To cater for
in-service-training for teachers
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To stimulate local
post-graduate courses
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To advise on methodology and
within subject-related areas
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To convey and coordinate
practical-pedagogical initiatives
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To advise everyone in the
school community: pupils, teachers and parents
Karmøy has played a key role in developing strategies
for the teaching of Norwegian as a second language to children and adults and
has made significant strides in promoting multicultural education within the
municipality. The Department has delivered a successful awareness raising
programme for primary and secondary pupils on the perils of racism and fascism.
This programme was developed by teachers to combat the growing influence of
neo-nazi tendencies in schools. Karmøy also hosted the third European
conference on Equality in Education in May 2000. Since 1995 schools in Karmøy
have been involved in many other Socrates-projects (all three actions in Comenius, ODL and Adult Education).
Provveditorato Agli Studi di Verona
(Provincial Educational Department), IT
The Department provides an advisory and support service to all schools in Verona, from nursery, high schools through to adult education. It offers in-service training, counselling and documentation for schools and teachers. Verona has a very diverse migrant population of 13,000 people coming from 80 different countries.The local and regional authorities are responsible for social actions towards migrants. The Department has set up a workshop Centre for multicultural education projects called Tante Tinte in Verona. This Centre collects and develops educational instruments for teachers for the teaching of Italian to speakers of other languages. It also runs multicultural education programmes to raise awareness of problems connected with racial matters and to prevent and struggle against xenophobia. Through the Centre, the Department promotes training courses for teachers and has assigned three teachers to work permanently on educational activities aimed at the social inclusion of disadvantaged groups in the population. Verona also has many school based projects in primary and secondary sectors about cultural education to combat xenophobia and linguistic support to children and adult migrant workers. Verona also hosted the second European conference on Equality in Education in May 1999.
The CRCE is a jointly funded education partnership between Leeds
Education Authority and Leeds Metropolitan University. It was set up in 1996 to pool the expertise
and resources of two major educational institutions in responding to the needs
of a diverse community of learners in the school and higher education sectors.
The main area of the Centre’s work is the development of intercultural
and inclusive education programmes for initial and in-service teacher
training. It also offers a wide ranging
conference and seminar programme aimed at educationalists on current issues in
race, culture and education. This work is supported by a programme of research
in schools and educational programmes for pupils, teachers and community educators.
As part of the university’s policy on Widening Participation, the Centre also
works directly with parents and pupils from inner Leeds schools to encourage
the take up of post-school educational opportunities in further and higher
education.
Quality in Diversity
(QiD)Consultancy and Training, Leeds, UK
The QiD is a partnership of
education consultants which offers quality consultancy and training services in
education, employment, community development and health. The main aim of the
QiD is to work with diverse organisations, institutions and communities to
build a just and fair society. QiD is an independent consultancy group
operating at local, national and international level.
QiD consists of consultants with high national and regional profiles.
They have immense experience in leading innovative and lasting initiatives and
projects and have a proven record in developing, implementing, monitoring and
evaluating policies and strategies in a range of fields.
QiD specialises in equal opportunity issues in the areas of education,
employment, community development and health and provide its services through
Action Research projects, Training courses, Project evaluation and appraisals,
Project formulation and management, Policy development, Action planning and
Local and regional market research.
QiD has recently worked in the following areas: Race and Education in
pre- and post 16 education and training sectors, Mentoring for pupils and
students, Bilingual and multilingual education, Cross-cultural communication,
Managing change in a multicultural society, Promoting intercultural dimension
in Europe, Consulting diverse communities, Race and mental health issues,
Cross-cultural counselling, Supporting supplementary school education, Dealing
with Racial incidents and Harassment, Ethnic monitoring and the effective use
of data in promoting race equality and fair recruitment and selection policies.
Københavns kommune, Uddanelses-og Ungdomsforvaltninge
(The Administration of Education and Youth, Section for Bilingual Pupils), DK
Uddannelses- og
Ungdomsforvaltningen is responsible for
every aspect of education in Copenhagen delivered to children, youth and
adults. The Municipality also offers a substantial educational programme to
school pupils after school hours. One of the main areas is the teaching of
Danish as a second language, which is the responsibility of the Section for
Bilingual Pupils. The education of bilingual pupils has been a major area of
development since 1996. Currently, the Municipality is implementing and
developing an integrated action plan for the education of bilingual pupils. The
implementation and delivery of the action plan involves a cross-section of
other public services. The Municipality also support the development of ethnic
minority languages in the city. It has been involved in a number of European
intercultural educational initiatives and is currently organising the Fourth
European Equality in Education Conference to be held in May 2001in Copenhagen.
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Artemisszio Foundation, Budapest, HUN
Artremisszio is a non-profit organisation of public interest. It was
created to promote the intercultural communication, and to fight for the
equality of opportunities for minority communities and for other disadvantaged
social groups. Since its creation in 1998 the Foundation has been working
actively in European projects relating to these themes. It organises trainings
and study trips to other European countries for the professionals of the social
sector. It plays the role of host organisation in Leonardo placement projects
and that of the sending organisation for SVE projects The Foundation also
supports the creation of audio-visual documents and written publications. It
has a research department engaged in scientific cooperation programs in the
field of urbanity, ethnic relations and communication. In the current year, the
Foundation is working more specifically on the creation of a training programme
in intercultural communication for social workers with the collaboration of
five European countries, on a Phare democracy program aiming at the prevention
of cultural conflicts in sensible multicultural regions of Hungary. It is also
developing a professional training programme for women of Roma origin in order
to help them integrate into the labour market after a long period of
unemployment.