Education

Education in cultural spaces

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Topic video Education in cultural spaces

Topic video

Education in cultural spaces

The 'Education in cultural spaces' cluster funds projects that activate young people to act democratically in the present in a way that is historically aware and sensitive to continuities. The video provides an insight into selected projects.

Topics

  • creative and emotional educational approaches to the history of National Socialism and perspectives of the persecuted and their descendants
  • strengthening empathetic, pro-social attitudes and promoting commitment against antisemitism, antigypsyism/anti-Roma discrimination, racism and hostility towards LGBTIQ and disabled people

Methods/formats

  • didactically supported, immersive art and culture-related educational activities in the network
  • (digital) art projects
  • exhibitions

Objectives

  • opening up creative, emotional and empathy-enhancing educational approaches to the history of National Socialism
  • anchoring various groups of victims and persecuted persons in the public consciousness
  • raising awareness of continuities of National Socialism in the form of today’s prejudices, discrimination and hatred

Target groups

  • Young people and adults without family biographical references to National Socialist history and with little access to political-historical and cultural education

Region

  • Germany

Our partners

  • Federal Ministry of Finance as grantor for the project “Educational Agenda on NS Injustice”
  • theaters, museums and other visual and performing arts institutions
  • memorial sites and other players in (non-) formal education and organized urban and civil society
  • media partners