Exploring Diversity & Global Citizenship through the Arts

• This summer Inservice course will be of interest to all primary teachers and principals.

• It will provide practical ideas on how to use art forms, including music, storytelling, drama and art, to explore identity, promote inclusion, challenge discrimination and celebrate diversity in the classroom and school.

• Skilled arts facilitators with experience working in primary schools will guide teachers through ways to create an inclusive participative, intercultural and globally aware classroom and school environment, and create a space for teachers and principals to share their experiences.

Dates: 9.45 - 2.15pm, 5 – 9 July 2010. Refreshments will be provided.
Venue: Red Cow Moran Hotel, Naas Road, Dublin 22
Contact: Email Ali@comhlamh.org or call 01 4783490 

Workshops will include:

Using art to create an inclusive classroom
Objectives: To explore the use of visual art as a tool to engage children with global issues and diversity, and to identify ways in which visual arts practice can support children in exploring diversity issues and in developing an inclusive and globally aware classroom

Using drama and creative writing
Objectives: To offer a range of strategies for exploring issues of empathy and empowerment and themes of migration and fair trade using drama and creative writing methodologies

Incorporating Intercultural Education & Global Citizenship Education into the primary curriculum
Objectives: To explore the key aims, concepts and theories of intercultural and development education and ways to incorporate them into the primary curriculum.

Other workshops will look at how to use music and storytelling and provide information about the resources available for this work. 

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