“To Educate a Xenophobe”: Outcomes Review of the Advocacy Campaign for Tolerance in Education (Verbal and Visual Contents in Primary School Textbooks) in Bulgaria

• Authors: Venellin Stoychev , Sylvia Borissova , Ani Marinova , Nora Goleshevska , Julian Borissov

Abstracts

EN

In recent years, the problem of methods of education in values of tolerance to difference is subject to increased public attention at the EU level. However, even a sparse reading of the Bulgarian primers and readers shows that the first meeting of children with what is officially “normal” in the social world excludes the “different” people. The main objective of the project “To Educate a Xenophobe” (2015-2016) implemented by the Bulgarian NGO Political Science Center in collaboration with Institute for Creative Civil Strategies was to address the absence of systematic orientation to the initial stage of education as crucial for assimilating a tolerant attitude towards the different people in society. The project aimed to increase public attention and initiate a constructive dialogue with Bulgarian decision makers and stakeholders on the need for conducting reforms in state education requirements and legislation via a package of analyses, surveys and in-depth interviews.

Keywords

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tolerance toward diversity in society; intercultural dialogue; screening of textbooks’ verbal and visual contents; primary school; EU educational policies

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Kultura i Edukacja
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 2(124)
• Pages: 157-174

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Venellin Stoychev

• Political Science Center, Bulgaria

author

Sylvia Borissova

• Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

author

Ani Marinova

• Children’s Department of the Bulgarian National Radio

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Nora Goleshevska

• Institute for Creative Civil Strategies, Bulgaria

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Julian Borissov

• DSK Bank

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/kie.2019.02.10

Biblioteka Nauki

1968279