Given that I had no experience in non formal education,
except the projects in whichwas involved (the most important being the one held
this year, the Vidrike, Estonia, "Stop Labelling Yourself), the emotions I
have tried in the morning of April 5, 2012 were too large to be described.
Working with children is not my strength, perhaps because I am stubborn to
think that I lack pedagogical talent. Well, with the knowledge gained in the
training course from Estonia, where I had not only trained trainers but also a
great team, I've tried to give my best in order to provide information that could help my first workshop
participants in discovering and avoiding stereotypes.
I do not know how, but once passed the first five minutes of
presentation, mine and theirs, everything turned into a game, their interest
and attention fueled my desire to explain things related to discrimination and
stereotypes and prejudices and debating together as many problems as possible.
Overall, exploring stereotypes through various exercises,
debates on the equality between a man and a woman, interspersed with relaxing
and group building games aroused the interest and active participation of
children, so that the end of the workshop brought much sadness in classroom. All
of them would have wanted at least a few extra hours, which unfortunately they
did not obtain. But they have my promise to return and to carry out other
useful and interesting workshops.
For me it was a very intense experience, which I intend to repeat as soon as possible.
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