First workshop of the project: “Post-colonial perspectives on global racism. Resistance and inclusion of migrant voices in educational work critical of racism”

Are you part of the Chilean or Sudanese com­munity in Ber­lin? Are you act­ive in polit­ic­al struggle? Do you have exper­i­ence in polit­ic­al edu­ca­tion or are you inter­ested in polit­ic­al edu­ca­tion? We invite you to become part of our team of experts in this pro­ject and dis­cuss issues related to inclu­sion, anti-dis­crim­in­a­tion and col­on­iz­a­tion and through this we devel­op togeth­er anti-racist/ra­cism crit­ic­al edu­ca­tion­al meth­ods.

About us :

In the pro­ject are edu­ca­tion­al con­sult­ant Adam Bahar, who comes from Sudan and lives for 12 years in Ger­many and he has years of exper­i­ence in polit­ic­al edu­ca­tion work and act­ive in vari­ous migrant groups togeth­er with Cristina Mara­m­bio from Chile,
They are coordin­at­ing and organ­iz­ing the pro­ject with the sup­port of our mem­bers of the asso­ci­ation Förderver­ein Offene Bildung Umwelt Kul­tur.

Our goal :

We want to use know­ledge and expert­ise of migrant com­munit­ies in a strong real life ori­ented approach to cre­ate new edu­ca­tion­al meth­ods. With­in the frame­work of this pro­ject, meth­ods for the imple­ment­a­tion of four work­shop days with dif­fer­ent them­at­ic focuses are to be developed, tested and dis­sem­in­ated.

The developed edu­ca­tion­al meth­ods should choose cre­at­ive and non-form­al approaches that are as inter­sec­tion­al as pos­sible and include pos­sib­il­it­ies for adapt­a­tion in terms of tar­get group and time frame. In addi­tion, they should devel­op skills for action or strategies against racism with the learners or provide them with such com­pet­en­cies.

How do we want to work :

In sev­er­al work­shop days we want to look togeth­er at the rela­tion­ship of both coun­tries (Chile-Sudan) to Ger­many from a his­tor­icist as well as from a cur­rent per­spect­ive. Using Chile as an example, we will dis­cuss its colo­ni­al his­tory and the res­ult­ing struc­tures of Chilean soci­ety, the role of Ger­man exiles and the cur­rent protests and the res­ult­ing demo­crat­iz­a­tion pro­cess.

The demo­crat­iz­a­tion pro­cess and the res­ist­ance against the mil­it­ary regime in Sudan also offer cur­rent points of con­tact for edu­ca­tion­al work. In par­tic­u­lar, the role of the mil­it­ary and devel­op­ment aid provided by the EU and Ger­many to the Sudanese dic­tat­or­ship in recent years as part of the Khar­toum pro­cess to ward off refugees rep­res­ents a clear link to Ger­many and Europe. This goes hand in hand with the often racist con­nota­tions of Ger­man debates on refugee defense from Africa and has strong implic­a­tions for migrant:s from Africa liv­ing here.

Who we are look­ing for :

We are look­ing for 20 people from the Chilean and Sudanese migrant*s self-organ­iz­a­tions to be part of the cre­ation and even­tu­al future imple­ment­a­tion of these edu­ca­tion­al meth­od­o­lo­gies.