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The pictures show a pictionary exercise (on the left) that exposes how the participants view each others' religions, and a mediation exercise at a workshop for youth leaders at Baku, Azerbaijan |
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Teaching for Tolerance
The Oslo Coalition project on School Education, Tolerance, and Freedom of Religion or Belief seeks to develop a global interdisciplinary network to contribute to the following up of the recommendations of the Final Document of The 2001 Madrid Consultative Conference on School Education in Relation with Freedom of Religion or Belief. The objectives are:
- To contribute to the development and dissemination of material for education about freedom of religion or belief as a human right and about tolerance with regard to religion or belief.
- To evaluate different educational models (civic education, education about religion or belief etc.) from around the world to see if they contribute to tolerance and understanding between people with different beliefs and worldviews, and whether they are in compliance with international human rights standards on freedom of religion or belief.
The Oslo Coalition is aware that education for tolerance is only a part of a wider spectrum of education for human rights and education in peace competence. Competence in tolerance and peacebuilding is a combination of knowledge, skills and attitudes. Knowledge alone is insufficient. Oslo Coalition therefore works to spread competence on how teachers can inspire the right attitudes in their pupils, both by their own examples and through the educational methods they choose; and how teachers can train up the skills their pupils will need in order to practice tolerance, and actively manage their own conflicts and attitudes.
For more about the Oslo Coalition Teaching for Tolerance project, see the working group strategy document and the working group plan of action.
Resources
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2008-2009
The Oslo Coalition has supported and participated in the international development of the website http://www.educationforpeace.no. This website is a resource for teachers and workshop facilitators, with more than 200 activities and exercises arranged after the stages of a workshop (warming up, getting to know each other, expectations, evaluation, rounding off), the skills to be trained (communication, empathy, facilitation of dialogue, conflict transformation, nonviolence), the topics to be studied (human rights, peace and environment, freedom of religion or belief) with tips for teachers (universal tools) and resources.
Earlier projects:
Please note: some of the links below link to our old website. Please use the arrows on your browser to come back to this website.
- Workshop: "Active Tolerance Based Education, upgrading" in cooperation with the Centre for Religious and Socio-Cultural Diversity, UIN, Yogyakarta, December 2007, see activities for Training in Freedom of Religion and Belief project group, here
- Regional Roundtable in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue, Juni 2007 (in cooperation with UNESCO)
- Participation in process towards the Toledo Guiding Principles on Teaching about Religion and Beliefs in Public Schools (an OSCE/ODHIR publication)
- Symposium on Religious Education in the Muslim World and Teaching Islam in Schools in Europe, Istanbul, November 2007.
- Regional Workshop on Interreligious Dialogue for youth leaders, Zaguba, Azerbasjan May 2007 (doc)
- Workshop in Makassar, Indonesia on "Teaching for Tolerance in the Indonesian context", January 2007
- Report (in Norwegian only) on religion in school and Islamization in Pakistan,based on a Oslo Coalition visit in November 2005
- Workshop in Istanbul on "Learning about the Other and Teaching for Tolerance in Muslim Majority Societies", November 2005 > book
- Youth competition, "Stories about Tolerance": results (2004)