Boddinstrasse 42 c/o Karina Piersig
Berlin
ألمانيا
- Youth and education
StreetGriot Media Education offers courses and workshops in which youths find support for their creativity, autonomy, and courage to explore their own ideas. In our projects we create intercultural learning environments in which youths can pursue questions that are of importance to them. Children and youths in our projects work on topics that contribute to their understanding of who they are and the world in which they live, such as turning points in their lives, or political and social structures whose effects they experience in their daily lives. The basic principles of our curriculum are relevance to youths’ lives, active participation, and process orientation. In our projects we create space for applied and academic learning, for emotional and social development, and for youths’positive self-images and the assumption of responsibility on their way to adulthood. Video technology and digital media are our tools: Youths create their own film projects: they decide on and research content, acquire the necessary technological skills, and artistically express their ideas in the medium of film. They use the internet to research information on their film topics and make public interviews that they conduct in their own communities. They also use webquest learning environments designed by us to reflect on political and emotional topics such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In our courses we work on a wide range of topics which all have in common that they are oriented towards a diversity and social justice perspective. Topics addressed so far in our courses have included gender, identity, immigration, intergroup conflict, Islamophobia, and Anti-Semitism. Our basic media literacy curriculum scaffolds competencies in the areas of digital media, socio-emotional development, and language use. We come ready with our mobile media lab that includes digital cameras, microphones, tripods, and editing software, and we conduct workshops and classes tailored to each setting. Working with digital media in our projects includes more that mere “tech”-knowledge. Almost equally important are the acquisition and development of socio-emotional and language skills. In our courses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict youths of different backgrounds have the opportunity to explore different perspectives on the conflicting parties, research information, give voice to their experiences and emotions, and understand the experiences and emotions of others. In orientation to other approaches in the field of Peace Education, this line of our work focuses on the youths’ exploration of knowledge, values, attitudes and behaviors that are necessary for a peaceful coexistence. In a series of different modules (e.g., video messages, webcasts) we focus on the critical analysis of the structural and emotional constellations that feed situations of intractable conflict, and which also influence the participants in our courses.