Voskenslaan 362
Gent
Belgium
- Democracy and community development
Promote Intercultural Society: Offering tools for intercultural skills to all citizens.
Education for all in a diverse society: Raising awareness of intercultural society in students attending our Faculty, mainly to future social workers. Creation of an inclusive and applicable diversity policy for our Faculty. Offering tools to teachers in secondary education to raise awareness and promote intercultural skills.
Researching the more value of diverse society: Exploring the topic of rites of passage as a means for more tolerance in plural societies. By focusing at sameness instead of difference we create tools that are directly applicable in intercultural society.
“How different is different”: classes and exhibitions on rites of passage as a means for more tolerance in intercultural society.
“Passages”: Recording 50 life stories of new Belgians, translating them into 1/ a book 2/ workshops where the life stories are presented as a means of communication in intercultural society, focusing at sameness rather than difference in human lives.
“Marriage Migration”: Analyzing the phenomenon of marriage migration in Ghent, Belgium.
“Integrating Together”: Offering new Belgians the possibility to train their language skills and broaden their social network with a coach. Offering students in social work the possibility to deliberately gain skills as a coach, as well as to bring them in contact with other cultures.
“Growing older in a changing society”: Practice oriented research focused at the life stories of elderly new Belgians as a means for productively diversifying health care knowledge and practices.
Elaboration of a diversity policy for our Faculty
We work with the concept of diversity in various innovative ways in theory and practice.
To broaden our scope and share experience in working on intercultural dialogue.