Codes of Tolerance

Im Workshop Berlin wurden von Schülerinnen und Schülern zum Thema Toleranz

• Alltsgsszenen und Fragen formuliert
• Antworten gesammelt
• und jeweils eine einfache Formel für ein friedliches Zusammenleben zugeordnet – Codes of Tolerance.

Im Blog sind, nach den Szenen und Fragen geordnet, die Antworten und Codes zu finden . Die Beiträge können auch direkt über die Kategorien  aufgerufen werden:

Disability | Imagine seeing someone trying to get across a street, althouhg he or she is blind.

Gender | Imagine a boy who likes to do things that we think of girls normally doing -playing with Barbies, wearing a dress or make – up, sewing things.

Helpless Person | What would you do, if you see a person that is hurt and can’t help himself?

Homeless Person | What would you do, if you see a homeless person with no food or drink or shelter?

Older Generation | Think about when adults talk to you about somthing they don’t like. Do they talk to you in a nice and respectful way all of the time?

Poor Person | Imagine seeing someone without a jacket in winter time or asking for money from strangers walking by. What would you do, if you see a person with out shoes and jacket?
To be different | Imagine meeting a person who looks different from you in some way- for example, is missing an arm or has different-colored you.

To be unusual | Imagine meeting someone who does not celebrate Chrismas but instead does things that you don’t do (doesn’t own or watch TV, doesn’ talk on the phone , eat meat or own a car, wears a hat or a scarf on their head to cover it).

From Tuesday, November 13th to Friday, November 16th, I spent every morning until noon at the Nelson Mandela School in Berlin-Wilmersdorf with Class 3c. They worked hard at formulating questions, collecting information, and interpreting answers to turn simple responses into a list of codes for peaceful human coexistence — Our Codes of Tolerance.

I think they may have left out a few codes that are extremely important to them, such as freedom to play games on laptops or the right to fresh air after a couple of hours of hard work.