WISH Project
Youth taking action for overcoming oppression
WHAT IS WISH PROJECT?
WISH is a project funded by the Erasmus + program whose key stakeholders are young people between 14 and 26 years old. The project will be implemented at European level, in different national contexts characterized by the same youth difficulties.
In the changing society and value/social/economic crisis, young people experience daily several situations that are characterized by a kind of “oppression”, linked to individualism, imposed authority, hierarchic models, lack of self-determination and self-management, lack of exchange and peer evaluation, regressive dynamics, contradictions, educational models promoting the acquisition of knowledge instead of competences and skills. The WISH project focuses on preventing such conflicts by ascribing value to the methodology of the Theatre of the Oppressed.
OBJETIVES
The project intends to give young people new approaches, methodologies and tools for conflict management, in accordance with the Theatre of the Oppressed techniques, so that they overcome conflicts and oppression and build common and shared solutions.
The project activities will see as main result the development of a proposal for the creation of a global education model that includes debate and the Theatre of the Oppressed approach and techniques for the acquisition of self-awareness, self-management and conflict management skills and competences.
The proposed training model will support and promote also the development of global citizenship skills in young people, by strengthening and putting into practice the UNESCO Recommendations (2015), and the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
METHODOLOGY
The methodology elaborated by all partners will be related with the main needs identified by the partners, linked to the educational practices - promoting research and dialogue, investigation and systematization of experiences, experimentation and capacity building.
Oppression feeling and unsuitable educational practices make the conflict management really difficult. If on one hand, it increases aggressive attitude in some youth, on the other hand, it can generate in others a depressive attitude due to feelings of inappropriateness especially present when the young people are victims of racism or bullying, or protagonists of an early dropout.
Theatre of the Oppressed is an arsenal of theatre techniques and games that seeks to motivate people, restore true dialogue and create space for participants to rehearse taking action. It begins with the idea that everyone has the capacity to act in the “theatre” of their own lives; everybody is at once an actor and a spectator. It is a theatrical representation of reality aiming at better understanding and transformation as well as a risk-free handling of it, as children do when play, draw and dramatize.
Theatre of the Oppressed is a working method, the union of a theoretical and technical background, that uses theatrical language and is aimed to understand and transform the daily life of people who pass through it.
FOR WHOM?
The project brings together a number of workers and professionals in youth field, social inclusion, formal and non-formal education, academic and school staff, trainers, NGOs, associations and young people, whose competences will be enhanced to build a systemic action aimed at preventing conflicts linked to bullying and racism, and for the acquisition by youth of self-awareness, self-management and conflict management skills and competences.
Moreover, the project includes in the activities the contribution of key stakeholders in the target field so to assure the validation / dissemination /sustainability of project outcomes.
Finally, the project includes in the activities the implementation of the results in the target field to ensure the validation, dissemination and sustainability of project outcomes.
WHERE AND WHEN?
Multiplier events will be held in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Latvia.
IN COLLABORATION WITH