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Eurokid – developing intercultural and anti-racist learning on the Internet

Combining young people’s fascination with the Internet with teaching about racism and anti-racism was the inspiration behind the Eurokid project. The project developed websites which address common issues of diff erence, confl ict and diversity across Europe, such as the situation of Roma, the position of refugees, anti-Semitism, linguistic diff erences, and the growth of non-Christian religious minorities. The project used the advantages of the Internet to provide on-line teaching resources which are transnational, interactive and engaging for young people. The main target audience are younger teenagers. The project partners from Spain, Italy, the UK and Sweden, all specialists in multicultural education, designed websites and produced additional teaching materials for teachers. This work resulted in four websites for each of the partner countries. Fictional characters representing diff erent ethnic groups in the country inform about their life, their hobbies and beliefs. On a European website some of them meet in a chat room. In this way the websites tackle the question of stereotypes and inaccurate generalisations about ethnic groups. The website is freely accessible to schools and to individual young people. Using this example the project partners invested also in research on the process and the outcomes of specifi c forms of web-development and pedagogical application. They developed a theoretical and research framework for the use of website technology in addressing antiracism issues in schools, youth groups and teacher education. The main outcomes of the project were not only excellent websites for classroom use, but also a training programme for teachers linked to each website, and a network of interested users. The project also resulted in the publication of a book on "Kids in Cyberspace".
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