Main objectives

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Main objectives

• Create equal educational conditions for all
  students independent of social background, gender
  or ethnic belonging
• A larger number of students reach their set up
  goals
• Build networks

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Attitudes in School
-an education about values and attitudes
toincrease goal fulfillment
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What are attitudes?

• Attitudes are an evaluation of people, events,
  phenomenas, opinions or objects.
• They are structured expectations or preconceived
  ideas.
• We get our attitudes from our social
  surroundings.
• They are validative and function as support and
  help in our daily life they can also in a
  negative way make us ignore important
  circumstances in our surroundings.

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Attitudes can be changed

• Attitudes are most of all influenced by emotions
  and facts

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Positive role models to create positive attitudes

• To lift forward the positive role models within
  ones own school.

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Education through 3 steps

1. A two day boarding school
2. Analysis to help the schools formulate the goals
   with the efforts. Also help with formulating main
   objectives with the efforts.
3. Opportunity to choose from a wide range of
   different educations which focuses on themes

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Main objectives

• Create equal educational conditions for all
  students independent of social background, gender
  or ethnic belonging
• A larger number of students reach their set up
  goals
• Build networks

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1. School development in practice Leading and
steering

• Help to look out for all co-workers diverse
  background, experience and education.
• Education in a complicated society of change.
• Together with colleagues in similar situations.
• For school leaders.

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2. Value- and cooperation exercices

• To create a safe educational environment fot the
  participants.
• To shed light on questions regarding how adults
  and young people relate to one another.
• To channel and include the participants knowledge
  and experiences.
• To give the participants support in the
  development process within their own school.
• Methods to improve adults behaviour in relation
  to young people.

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3. Dare to be a grown up

• Presentation of a model used when working with
  children and young people.
• Its all about learning how to make good choices
  in life.
• Equal but different about worth and similarity.
• An increased psychologification within our
  schools.
• Give structure to children with lack of
  structure.
• We need to see beyond our own and the group
  interests to be able to see to the overall
  picture.

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4. Parental collaboration

• In what way can pedagogues increase the parental
  involvement in their educational programmes?
• What mechanisms are decisive for the
  collaboration between the school and the home?
• Six different collaboration methods parenting,
  communication, volontary work, home work,
  decision making and collaboration with the nearby
  society.
• To increase the parents faith in the school

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5. How to live in a multicultural society

• Interdisciplinary education.
• The human being and her relations in the
  globalised and multicultural society of today.
• What kind of consequences does dichotomous
  thinking create?
• The importance of critical thinking,
  intercultural understanding and human rights in
  order to create a safe school environment.
• To be and authentic human being.

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6. Students teach teachers

• A group of students have created an education for
  their teachers.

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7. Awareness of the meaning with attitudes and
behaviour in relation to others

• Together with drama pedagogoues from House of
  Dreams in Malmoe teachers get to try out and
  learn new ways of practice with culture as the
  only tool.

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8. Management of school climate

• In what ways do violence express itself at your
  school?
• What phenomenas gives breeding ground for
  violence?
• How can we get control?
• How can we make the school a safe environment?
• What kind of activities affect the students in a
  positive way?
• The goal is to create a safe school.

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9. Law against discrimination and other insulting
treatment of children and students

• What consequences will the new law have on our
  work within our own schools?

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Attitudes in school

• An education about values and attitudes presented
  by Centre of Diversity in Education in Malmoe.

• Commissioned by the Swedish National Agency for
  School Improvement
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