Teaching and learning materials

The general aim is to introduce secondary school pupils into the world of linguistic diversity and the culture of peace, based on a social (attitudinal), linguistic and cultural approach. The activity includes four working areas, the first serving as an introduction and the other three being independent from one another:

The aim of the first two areas is to make clear that acting for peace implies much more than not wanting war. The student reflects on the attitudes and actions in his immediate environment that can lead to conflicts which could be avoided through dialogue.

The third area should provide an understanding of the different ways to express the idea of peace, as well as of the relations that can be established between these expressions and a cultural vision of the world.

In the fourth area, the aim is to focus on other ways of expressing and representing peace in other languages and cultures, whether through speech, rituals, gestures, signs and graphic representations.

The final work consists of creating a poster or a digital document by gathering all the materials elaborated by the pupils during the activities. The results could be compared between schools or classes of the same school. This could be an opportunity to connect with people of the same age, as well as with adults, representing other contexts - in order to broaden the access to other worldviews.
The languages used in the teaching materials are, in addition to Catalan, Spanish and English (the teaching material is available in these three languages): German, Basque, Chinese, Esperanto, French, Gaelic (Irish), Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili and others according to the tasks chosen and the languages of the pupils.
The material includes texts and images. Some activities can be carried out on the computer.

Interdisciplinary links: social sciences, visual arts, corporal expression, music, languages of the school.

Duration: 10 sessions of 50 min. each.

Source : Groupe La Porta de les llengües, Barcelone; authors: Artur Noguerol, Àngels Prat, Dolors Masats i Núria Vilà.

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona i Rosa Sensat

Card compiled by. Michel Candelier