SUCCESSFUL EDUCATIONAL

ACTIONS FOR PREVENTING

VIOLENCE AND RADICALIZATION:

TRAINING FOR FAMILIES

Verónica Rivera

Secondary Public School “Almina”

Ceuta, Spain

The 23rd Meeting of the Council of Europe Network of Co-

ordinators for Education for Democratic Citizenship and

Human Rights Education

Istanbul, Turkey

April 16, 2015

A FEW MINUTES TO SHOW…

• Information and data

• Starting point

• What is a SuccessfulEducational Action?

• What are SEA based on?

• Which of them are carriedout in Ceuta/Spain?

• What are SEA used for?

INFORMATION AND DATA

• Population of Ceuta: 80.000

inhabitants.

• Population density 3700

inh/km 2, the highest in Spain.

• High unemployement rates

• Mother language of 42% of

population and 75% of

children in Primary School:

dariya (dialect of arabic).

• Further information.

STARTING POINT

• Academic failure

• Increasing (physical, psychological, verbal) violence

• Prejudices

• Radicalism (thoughts, behaviour, belief)

• Even incorporation toradical religious and political movements

WHAT ARE SUCCESSFUL

EDUCATIONAL ACTIONS BASED ON?

• SEA are based on:

• Egalitarian dialogue

• Democracy culture

• Heterogeneus and

diverse groups

• Equal relations

• Everyone has a voice

and all the voices are

important

WHICH OF THEM ARE CARRIED

OUT IN CEUTA/SPAIN?

INTERACTIVE GROUPS

Heterogeneous grouping in the classroom with

reorganisation of human resources.

The organisation of the classroom in IGs has been identified as one of the Successful Educational Actions (SEAs) in theIntegrated Project INCLUDE-ED (2006-2011), which has beendesignated as one of the 10 successful projects -the only one in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities- of the ResearchFramework Programmes (European Commission, 2011).

DIALOGIC LITERARY

GATHERINGSDLG is a dialogic learning

environment that improves

reading skills and

communicative abilities

and promotes school–

community links.

Readings in DLG are

classic literary works. Ex.:

Robinson Crusoe, Ana

Frank Diary, Oliver Twist,

La Celestina…

FAMILY TRAINING

- Talks about gendre, social

networks, educations laws,

healthy habits…

- Workshops with NGOs.

SOCIAL

MEDIA/NET

WORKS

CONCLUSIONSuccessful Educational Actions:

- Increase self-esteem of the families and children.

- Contribute to transform family interactions at home and consequently, to improve the dialogue; therefore the familyfeel more confident to help the children/youth.

- The family is empowered through the SEA, social networks(no fear for using them).

- The families can offer alternatives to spend the time (one of the worries mentioned by the mothers) against radical behaviours.

- Instrumental learning and values are learnedsimultaneously.

Verónica Rivera

@vriverareyes vriverareyes@gmail.com

http://veronicariverareyes.blogspot.com.es