Online training on ” Managing conflict in schools”

Center Amalipe held online training for educational mediators on the topic “Managing conflicts in schools”. The training was attended by 65 educational mediators from all over the country, who will receive a certificate /without qualification credit/, which in addition to knowledge and competencies, will upgrade their teaching portfolio. The training is part of an international project in which Amalipe Center is a partner and provides an opportunity for the exchange of good practices.

During the training, Atanas Atanasov presented the work of the educational mediators in the working groups that were created. 8 working groups were created, and in each group, there was a responsible person, and the group participants were between 6-8 people! Each group had a set task to gather the following information about the community:

1. How are Roma defined in the locality?

2. Define the Roma in your locality according to the main meta-groups – Roma Christians ( Dasikane Roma), Roma Muslims ( Khorohane Roma), Kaldarasi, Rudari, Millet

2.1.If you define Roma as millet, indicate whether they call themselves millet or only Turks, whether they call themselves mouth millet, or what other way they call themselves. Do the oldest of them speak/understand Romani or is Turkish the only language spoken

2.2.If you define Roma as Rudari, indicate whether they accept this name or define themselves only as Vlachs or Bulgarians

3. What language is spoken by the older Roma in the mentioned locality – Roma, Turkish, Romanian, Bulgarian

4. What language is spoken by the younger Roma, especially the children

5. Do the children have difficulties with the Bulgarian language: indicate whether the children know Bulgarian and, when they enter school, whether they understand what the teacher says

6. Do the Roma in the locality have a traditional craft – e.g. basket makers, diggers, burgudji, etc.? Is this craft still practiced and by how many people, approximately

7. What calendar holidays are celebrated by Roma in the locality – e.g. St. George’s Day, St. Basil’s Day, Easter, Ramazan Bayram, Kurban Bayram, Petlyovden, etc.?

Describe how each of these holidays is celebrated

8. What are the main family holidays of the Roma in the locality – e.g. wedding, christening, etc.?

Describe how the main family holidays are celebrated

9. When did Roma in this particular locality start going to school?

10. When did the first Roma with secondary and higher education appear in the locality?

11. Describe who was the first Roma with higher education or with secondary education in your village / your town. Tell their stories.

Tell us how distance education happened in your country and what problems children, parents, teachers, mediators, etc. faced in your country.
Tell good practices from your work. They will be included in the Handbook for Educational Mediators we are preparing. Send us photos of your work!
Send us old photos (the older the better). Please scan them into school in high resolution and include with each photo a description of who is in it and who provided it to you.

More than 50 educational facilitators participated in the working groups, and we collected information on approximately 70 locations. Atanas Atanasov said that the usefulness of the working groups is extremely high, which is why he introduced educational mediators who will take the role of coordinators/leaders who will be responsible for the working groups within the network of educational mediators. From the beginning of 2021 until July 2021, 250 educational mediators from all over the country have already taken part and will be distributed regionally in the working groups, each group will consist of about 30 educational mediators with the following leaders:

Irena Mihaylova
Stefan Stefanov
Aldyn Stefanov
Zlatina Pamukova
Boycho Kochev
Angel Angelov

Atanas Atanasov said that it is important for all educational mediators to actively participate in the working groups because they are created to be able to support the work of educational mediators in the field.

During the meeting, Deyan Kolev also took part and said that the Support for Success project will be extended for another school year and some of the necessary funds for it were secured. By 15th September all schools will receive the mobile computers provided by the “REACT.EU” project. Over 1 100 000 000 will be requested from the Bulgarian government for education projects under the Recovery and Development Plan.

During the training, Tanya Hristova presented to the participants the topic ” Managing conflicts in schools”.

 

 

At the end of the meeting, the ERELA project was presented. The aim of the ERELA project is to promote and protect the rights of Roma victims of human rights violations and discrimination by raising society’s and stakeholders’ awareness, enhancing the implementation of non-discrimination legislation, and empowering Roma to seek legal remedies, in Bulgaria and Croatia. The project aims to create a virtuous circle whereby increased Roma involvement in access to justice mechanisms, leads to more and better cases being filed, which leads to benefits to Roma communities, which in turn increases trust in legal remedies and lawyers and encourages yet more cases to come forward.

 

The event is organized by Center “Amalipe” with the support of