In the fields of anti-racism and anti-racist non-form­al edu­ca­tion, white views con­tin­ue to have a con­sid­er­able impact on Germany’s edu­ca­tion­al envir­on­ment. Glob­al post-colo­ni­al view­points are hardly ever included in the per­spect­ives that are offered in edu­ca­tion­al con­texts and meth­od­o­lo­gies, which are typ­ic­ally vic­tim-centered.

With this pro­ject, we seek to provide immig­rant com­munit­ies the oppor­tun­ity to change the nar­rat­ive by con­trib­ut­ing their skills and exper­i­ence to the devel­op­ment of innov­at­ive instruc­tion­al strategies. We also hope to use power-shar­ing tech­niques by incor­por­at­ing them in the devel­op­ment of the meth­ods, which will be cre­ated, tested, and dis­trib­uted jointly.

We trace the devel­op­ment of our meth­od­o­logy through a series of work­shops in which we exchange with one anoth­er about the his­tory of res­ist­ance in our ter­rit­or­ies of ori­gin, reflect on the con­sequences of colo­ni­al­ism, post-colo­ni­al­ism, racism, and oth­er forms of dis­crim­in­a­tion, and where we define non-form­al edu­ca­tion.

Our manu­al, “The Jour­ney Towards Oth­er Per­spect­ives”, offers a com­pre­hens­ive nav­ig­a­tion chart designed for indi­vidu­als, organ­iz­a­tions, or insti­tu­tions aim­ing to facil­it­ate work­shops centered around a meth­od­o­logy based on glob­al south per­spect­ives, struc­tures of colo­ni­al­ism and exper­i­ences of racism and dis­crim­in­a­tion.The manu­al is avail­able to be down­loaded or read online.