CULTURAL BACKGROUND:
REFUGE OR BARRIER?
Culture-Tradition-Education-Women's Issues-Children's Issues
An information-gathering seminar addressing several aspects of social policy
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IUC code: FIME-02.99
Date: 21. - 27. February, 1999
Place: Hotel Absalon, Copenhagen, Denmark
Target group: Men and women from both Eastern and Western Europe: The language of the seminar is English.
We are looking for five participants from Britain: teachers, employees in the social sector and students at University level. The
programme in Copenhagen, also accommodation (in double rooms) and the meals stated in the programme are all free of charge. The
only expense to participants is the fare to Copenhagen, and spending money for some lunches.
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IUC is the Danish centre for international, intercultural education. It is supported by private and public funds, including Danish
and European governmental funds. For more information about IUC, consult their website: www.iuc-europe.dk
"One aspect of life's immense and wonderful colour and mystery
is the fact that groups of individuals differ from one another as groups:
in their customs, their traditions, their beliefs, their skin colour and the clothes they wear.
This otherness can be accepted with understanding and tolerance
as something which makes life richer;
it can be honoured and respected, and it can even be welcomed."
~Vàclav Havel~
The purpose of this seminar is to address urgent issues in a changing and more mobile Europe. Most European societies today are
multicultural. Some see this as an enrichment, others as a threat to their identity. Refugees from war zones may be well-received,
but other migrants are often not. They are seen as "economic" refugees and competition on the job market.
Participants will be asked to provide information about their home countries and to use this information in discussion and
workshops.
Programme
Sunday, 21 February
Afternoon arrival of participants
18.00 Dinner
19.30 Presentation of IUC staff and participants
and a short introduction to the participants' home countries.
Focus: What is your most important festival and how do you celebrate it?
Monday, 22 February: Culture and Traditions
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Cultural tradition: True identity or barrier to change?
Anthropologist and journalist Anne Knudsen
10.00 Discussion: Cultural background
What is necessary to maintain our identity in a changing society?
Are women more conservative than men? Does status quo give security?
Are men more conservative than women? Does status quo protect men's power?
What should change and what should remain the same in participant countries?
Can the "advanced" West learn from the "backward" East?
12.00 Lunch on your own
14.00 Women in culture and education: one Danish example
Maria Lexa from Foreningen Freja, an active women's cultural organization
18.00 Dinner
Optional theater visit
Tuesday, 22 February: Education
8.00 Breakfast
9.00 Is education the path to equal opportunity?
Karen Palsgaard from Danish Refugee Aid, on their "guest teacher" program
Nina Nørgaard, vice rector of Skt. Annæ Gymnasium
11.00 The Second Generation
Panel of young men and women from Pakistan, Turkey and Somalia on balancing home culture with their Danish schools.
13.00 Lunch on your own
14.30 Children's literature
New views of boys and girls, men and women
"People like us" and "strangers"
Children's lives in the past and today
18.00 Dinner
Wednesday, 23 February: Parliament and Culture for Kids
8.00 Breakfast
10.00 Visit to Danish Parliament
M.P.s Peter Duetoft and Elisabeth Arnold
on family issues, women's issues, what's hot and what's not in politics
12.00 Lunch on your own
14.00 Visit to Children's Museum at the National Museum
18.00 Dinner
Thursday, 24 February: Organizations
8.00 Breakfast
9.30 What can ordinary people do?
Filomenita Høgsholm, Black Women of Europe Network
Ann Charlotte Nordahl, DUF, Danish Youth Council
11.30 Workshop: Possibilities in participant countries
Ideas for organization: possible partners and goals
13.00 Lunch on your own
14.30 Get Organized
Meeting at the Union of Women Workers, presentation by Youth consultant Camilla Herdahl.
18.00 Dinner
Friday 25 February: The smallest citizens
8.00 Breakfast
9.30 How can children learn their parents' values if they are never together?
Training the care-givers
Panel with Pauline Grolin, child pyschologist
Social pedagogue and Professional day-care "mother"
12.00 Lunch on your own
14.00 Visit to an integrated Børnehave (kindergarten)
on parental involvement, good books and happy children
FREE TIME
18.00 Dinner
Saturday, 26 February
08.00 Breakfast
09.00 Workshops: Make a children's book and a good party
Participants will work in groups to produce 3 or 4 children's books during the day.
12.00 Lunch
The farewell party in the evening will be a combination of specialties from the
participant countries, prepared by the participants.
The party will take place in a private home.
Sunday, 27 February
08.00 Breakfast
Evaluation
Departure
This Programme is Subject to Change
Cultural Background Feb 99.doc
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