zaterdag 11 april 2015

Activities, reflections, .... CULTURE NIGHT !!!

A morning full of activities and reflections

Wednesday morning, second day of the workshop was for the majority of us a very interesting morning. Professor Francis D. Lee came to give us a great workshop. The fact that we had a lot of input during the whole session was great.

Professor Francis D. Lee

The main thing we would do during the morning was activities and reflections. Whenever we did an activity we came together to reflect about it. The reflection came from us, we got the chance to interact, and none of our answers were right or wrong.

We started with a chaotic dialogue exercise. We were told to have a normal dialogue in groups of two, after that we had to have the same dialogue without looking to each other’s eyes. After the exercise we came together and reflected on the two different kinds of dialogue. What did we notice, what went well, what went wrong, why, what did we feel, ... We also tried to link the dialogue exercise with GCED.

Puppet exercise

“Go and stand at your centre of the room.” That was the second activity we had to do. Everyone went to different places in the room. Some of us got the chance to explain why they choose this or that particular spot in the room. Afterwards we reflected about the exercise. Some interesting reflections:
  • Everyone has another or sometimes the same centre of the room. Everyone has another idea of what the centre of the room is for them.
  • Understanding each other’s centre of the room comes after people explained why this is the centre for them. 
  • It’s not about what and where the centre is, it’s about the mindset.
  • It’s important to know the centre of the others, but also to keep in mind what your centre is, what is important for you.
  • Find uniqueness in diversity!
  • First create a moment of not understanding, why is this there centre? First listen.
  • If we move to more diversity à observation of diversity
  • There is no centre à we can not define the centre
  • If we didn’t got this question, we wouldn’t look for a centre.
The other main exercises were the poppet exercise and the triangle exercise. Both exercises referred to different kinds of communication, different kinds of power structures/ relations. Some conclusions from the morning: 

  • Communication is a complex thing
  • Pedagogical approaches:

o   Holistic
o   Critical thinking and problem solving
o   Diverse pedagogical approaches
o   Participatory
o   Local-global connections or glocal-inter-connections
  • Global Citizenship is about learning how to live together. The whole being of others. The presence of communication.
  • Embrace diversity
In the afternoon we were split up per region, Europe was together with North- America. We had to look for a common issue and use the advocacy toolkit to start up our advocacy strategy. We were lucky that we were only with 5 people in our group, so the discussions went very smoothly and it was easy to make decisions. Compared with the region Africa or South- East Asia, who were with a very big group. They had to listen to many more people and take their ideas into consideration. I think this can be linked to the different ways of communication from the morning exercise. Also to the different characteristics of dialogue we discussed in the morning.




We finished the second day of the GCED workshop with an amazing culture night!!! I’ll let the pictures do the talking!!! 



Lovely South African song


Hind presenting the performers in beautiful traditional clothing
John: "Give me a heart beat"

Lova from Madagascar thought us a wonderful dance! 

 


Syrine, representing Tunesia, and offering us amazing sweets from Tunesia

'Pakistani - Bangladeshi - love song' 


Amazing friendship between Morocco and Algeria

Me, explaining "the big Belgian Easter egg quiz"



Enthousiastic people! All for the chocolate eggs 






















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