Make it visible! Working with young people against (invisible) racism (Youth MOCC)

Make it Visible is an online course which aims to improve the competences of youth workers, educators, teachers, activists, and anyone interested, on how to run educational activities with young people raising awareness and preventing any form of racism. The course is a result of the European project called STAR: Stand Together Against Racism, where 4 NGOs from Bulgaria, Italy, Poland and Spain got together to share, test, upscale and disseminate their best practices to act against (invisible) racism and any type of violence.

If you will decide to take a course, you will learn the current understanding of what racism is, including the modern forms of racism like invisible racism, or micro-racism. You will be able to discuss with colleagues from all around the world your best practices in anti-racism education and activism. We will invite experts to join us in the webinars where we all will be able to interact. And finally, you will be able to explore different educational tools and approaches. So, are you ready to join?

OBJECTIVES:

- to explore the frequent root causes of racism, understand what invisible racism is and its relation to power.

- to explore the racist hate speech

- to discover the aims, methods and practice of anti-racism education, learn about different anti-racist actions and understand the importance of reacting to everyday racism

- to share practices and experiences in tackling visible and invisible racism with young people.

Syllabus

MODULE 0 – Onboarding

MODULE 1 – Racism and Invisible Racism

1.1 Stereotypes and prejudices

1.2. What’s racism?

1.3. What’s invisible racism (microaggressions)

1.4. Discrimination and multiple discrimination (intersectionality)

MODULE 2 – Hate Speech

2.1 What is hate speech?

2.2 Hate speech – reasons

2.3 Consequences of hate speech

2.4 Hate speech online vs. hate speech offline

2.5 Hate speech and hate crimes

MODULE 3 – Antiracism

3.1 What is antiracism

3.2 Anti-racist education

3.3 Anti-racist activism

3.4 Anti-racist policies

3.5 Reacting to racism in everyday situations

MODULE 4 – STAR practices for countering racism and invisible racism

4.1 Peer Education

4.2 Community work

4.3 Working with excluded young people

4.4 Good Treatment

MODULE 5 - Antiracist education

5.1 Using NFE with young people

5.2 Tools for anti-racist education with young people

5.3 Tips and tricks

MODULE 6 – Challenges in Anti-Racist work and how to overcome them

6.1 Internal challenges

6.2 External challenges

6.3 Can we really change something?