Cultural Diversity Academy

Open your mind

Duration: 7 days
Recommended language level: A1 and above

BACKGROUND

Our daily lives are increasingly affected by globalisation. Knowing how to communicate within a diverse cultural environment and learning how to deal with cultural differences have become indispensable skills. The Academy of Cultural Diversity is a week-long programme which allows young people to explore questions around cultural diversity: How are cultures constructed? How do other people perceive the world? How do we solve the problems that arise from different cultural values? The Academy is characterised by its innovative combination of practical workshops and linguistic support classes in either Spanish or English. Participants will enjoy an immersive learning experience, leading to a deep and lasting understanding of diversity!

AIMS AND ACTIVITIES

The Academy of Cultural Diversity is designed to develop young people´s perception of cultural diversity and intercultural communication and, at the same time, analyse how to prevent hate speech and violent radicalisation. Over the course of the week, young people will learn about intercultural understanding and how to cope with living in a diverse society.

During the Academy of Cultural Diversity we will reflect on:

-Definitions: of multiculturality, interculturality and cultural diversity.
-Intrinsic social and cultural attitudes.
-How we put people into categories and act accordingly.
-How our identities are defined in relation to each other.
-How we develop our attitudes, beliefs and norms and how these affect our lives.
-How gender is culturally constructed and works as a system of norms and hierarchy.
-What meaning we give to difference and how it affects our interaction with each other.
-How an insight into these issues helps you to act more equally towards others.

The programme will include options for other recreational and cultural activities, for example: sightseeing trips to nearby cities, hiking, visits to Adventure Parks, swimming in natural river pools and canoeing.

OUTCOMES

 

Participants will be able to better understand and cope with cultural difference; understand the way we construct stereotypes and how societal attitudes affect our lives and the lives of those around us. They will be able to develop and lay the groundwork for creating a more peaceful and open-minded  society.

Young people will gain new and/or improved knowledge and skills:

Knowledge

-Difference between multicultural and intercultural society.
-Gender as a cultural construct of norms and hierarchy.
-Construction of stereotypes and our perception of the reality.
-The meaning we give to differences and how it affects the structure of power.

Skills

-Difference between multicultural and intercultural society.
-Gender as a cultural construct of norms and hierarchy.
-Construction of stereotypes and our perception of the reality.
-The meaning we give to differences and how it affects the structure of power.

Attitudes

-An open-minded approach.
-Willingness to analyse personal convictions, norms and beliefs.
-Empathy. -Respect for others and different points of view.

ECO ACADEMY

YOUTH INITIATIVES ACADEMY

YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY

HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ACADEMY

NO HATE SPEECH ACADEMY

CULTURAL DIVERSITY ACADEMY

GENDER EQUALITY ACADEMY

EXPRESSARTE ACADEMY