Purpose:
Education projects are aimed at building students competences – including intercultural competences-, raising awareness about diversity and promoting critical thinking.
The City and School Programme is a key resource that favours educational equity, connected education and a space for learning and enjoyment for all participants (including teachers and students).
Stimulus/Rationale:
The complementary activities of the school curriculum represent an added value that complements and contributes to enriching the educational projects of the centres, training pupils in socio-educational or leisure aspects and covering the needs derived from the schooling process.
Comprehensive education aims at the acquisition of knowledge and at the same time brings out the transversal competences that accompany pupils throughout their lives. Knowing the value of teamwork, the common good, the critical spirit, healthy habits, the expression of the arts, peace, social realities... are just some of the issues that are important, and this is where the City and School Programme can be useful, because it offers teachers 391 educational proposals that help to develop concepts and values that would otherwise be impossible to develop.
Almost 80 entities, institutions, companies and municipal services participate in the programme. They innovate and adapt, each school year, the proposals of the City and School Programme to the changing contexts.
Process:
The majority of schools in Sabadell implement intercultural projects and promote the role of migrants’ families in the Families Associations (AFAs). These include the organisation of gastronomic days, intercultural festivities, projects related to specific countries, etc.
Education in values
The Council offers around 15 educational proposals on diversity and coexistence for schools and high schools. There are as well actions around international cooperation and solidarity, volunteering and gender equality.
The education centres can book one the different activities. To name some of these initiatives:
- storytelling around gipsy population;
- The ‘coexistence’ rap: different forms of discrimination such as racism, xenophobia or homophobia are discussed, taking a historical look at the different forms of social and political expression of this discrimination, to focus on the social and political movements of the extreme right today.
- Outside the norm: this dynamic aims to bring young people closer to the LGBTI+ community in order to learn about diversity and debunk the myths surrounding it. The police come to school: learning about bullying: a session given by municipal police officers at the school, so that pupils acquire concepts and tools for detecting and intervening in the event of bullying.
The full list of activities can be found here: https://www.sabadell.cat/ca/educacio-en-valors/diversitat-i-convivencia A search engine helps to find activities by the organiser, the target group or the topic addressed.
Youth and cooperation
The City Council, together with the Solidarity and Cooperation Council, provides schools with educational proposals that complement the school curricula and deepen the education and raise awareness about international cooperation projects. Initiatives include learning and volunteering services, solidarity campaigns, markets, community kitchens, and even a project to experiment with multilingualism.
The full list of activities can be found here: https://web.sabadell.cat/programes/joves-i-cooperacio/projectes-d-institut
