Developing Across Differences: Experiential Perspective-taking
Using The Anne Frank House’s Memory Walk methodology, this course supports early-career (and all) practitioners in strengthening their abilities to facilitate transformative perspective-taking and expand their inclusion competencies toolkit.
This highly experiential methodology is one in which participants engage in outdoor learning in order to reevaluate their physical and social environment as a means to also (re)consider seen and unseen contexts that may exist in their workplace, classroom and/or community—and how they operate in them.
Why Attend?
Join this course to learn from a multiplier perspective how The Anne Frank House’s Memory Walk methodology works. Barry Van Driel, who co-initiated the approach, will explore, through a learning-by-doing approach, how to use and adapt the methods and tools to create transformative learning opportunities for your participants (whether they are corporate employees, students of all ages or community stakeholders) to improve their ability to realize and take into consideration perspectives other than their own.
This method’s highly experiential, outdoor learning approach encourages participants to learn in ways that are transformative and resonate long after taking part in the program. In it, we explore how to help participants understand how events may be remembered differently and (mis)represented in local symbols/monuments, and how this exercise relates to contemporary questions of exclusion and inclusion in our everyday environments.
In reflecting more critically on where symbols/monuments in the immediate environment come from, how they can be interpreted, and what they reveal about power relationships, dominant ideologies or narratives, and missing stories, participants develop valuable awareness, observation and perspective-taking skills that can then be transferred and applied in their everyday settings.
This course will enable you to strengthen your skills as a multiplier and facilitator by introducing you to creative new activities, providing opportunities for critical reflection and discussion with faculty and other early-career professionals, as well as expanding your range of tools to promote experiential perspective-taking.
| Dates & location |
11 July 2023 Academy Building (Broerstraat 5) or Harmonie Building (Oude Kijk in Het Jatstraat 26) |
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PhD/Postdoc/Practitioners May be appropriate for some MA students; contact the organisers for consultation about eligibility |
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Fee |
€550 |
| Academic coordinators |
Dr. Barry van Driel |
| Contact | ic rug.nl or info iddifferences.org |
Level requirements
The DAD is for multipliers who help individuals, organizations and societies better recognize, appreciate and use differences as a way of better communicating, working and thriving together.
These are (in-house and external) trainers, educators, consultants, coaches, researchers, scholars, facilitators, HR staff, advanced-level (MA+) students, and professional development specialists with 5+ years of experience/study in the greater Differences field. Contact the organisers at ic rug.nl or info iddifferences.org for consultation about appropriateness and eligibility.
It is expected that the participants have a sufficient command of the English language to actively participate in the discussions and to present their own work in English.
Participant profile
This course is for you if are a consultant/trainer/multiplier/educator with 5 or more years of experience in the greater Differences field who:
- May not otherwise easily engage with or convinced by traditional Differences training techniques, especially for topics in which participants are encouraged to be open or vulnerable;
- Wish to find innovative, creative ways to integrate inclusion and global learning for memorable and transformative impacts with stakeholders.
After this course you —and those you work with— will be able to:
- Experience transformative experiential perspective-taking through activities that promote multiperspectivity, encourage critical reflection and discussion, and support learners in fostering inclusion competencies.
- Be more aware and articulate about the stories, symbols and monuments around us, including about how societies and organisations commemorate key events; which and whose histories symbols/monuments convey and represent; and how they are linked to topics such as nationalism, exclusion, prejudice, and discrimination past and present.
- Adapt and use The Anne Frank House Memory Walk methodology to promote awareness, observation, critical thinking about local symbols/monuments, how events may be (mis)represented and remembered differently by different audiences through symbols/monuments, and how this exercise relates to contemporary questions of exclusion and inclusion in our everyday environments.
Course approach
This course uses experiential, (non-rigorous) outdoor learning methods. To gain full advantage of the course, participants should plan to take part in the Memory Walk exercise on the evening of Monday, 10 July before the class.
Sunday, 9 July (Optional networking event)
15.00-18.00
Monday, 10 July (Memory Walk exercise)
18.00-19.30
Tuesday, 11 July
09.00-17.00
Barry van Driel, PhD
Dr. Barry van Driel was educated at universities in the Netherlands and the United States and holds a graduate degree in the Psychology of Culture and Religion with a specialization in education.
Following a long career at The Anne Frank House where he was international director for teacher training and curriculum development, Barry today serves as an expert consultant to many private and public organisations, with clients including the European Commission on Inclusive Education, the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), UNESCO, and Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) among others. He has a special interest in working with teachers and teacher educators to promote diversity, freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education.
Among the publications he has written or edited are Variant Lifestyles (with Bram Buunk, Los Angeles 1986), Confronting Islamophobia in Educational Practice (London 2005), Challenging Homophobia (London 2007), and the report “Education Policies and Practices to Foster Tolerance, Respect for Diversity and Civic Responsibility for Children and Young People in the EU” (NESET II 2015).
Today, Barry is the Editor in Chief of the international academic journal Intercultural Education and Secretary General of the International Association for Intercultural Education. He also chairs the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations/BMW Intercultural Innovation Award prize jury.
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Deadline for application
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Regular registration closes on April 10th. Late registration closes on July 3rd. |
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Date of selection
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Within 72 hours following registration, you will be contacted directly by the organisers about your application. |
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Application
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Participants submit payment and details about their interest at the website of Developing Across Differences. They will be contacted directly by the organisers about their experience and the suitability of the course.
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| Last modified: | 25 January 2023 3.04 p.m. |