A Meeting Point

la ngonpo a meeting point Multicultural and Global Education Methodology for Partnership of Schools Multicultural and Global Education Methodology for Partnership of Schools la a meeting point La Ngonpo – A Meeting Point Multicultural and Global Education Methodology for Partnership of Schools Published by Multicultural Center Prague in cooperation with OnEarth – Society for Fair Trade Prague 2012 Authors: Martina Pavlíčková, Martina Holcová, Kristýna Hrubanová, Michala Chatrná, Bianka Machová This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Multicultural Centre Prague and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. This publication was supported by the Czech development Agency and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs within the Programme of Development Cooperation of the Czech Republic. ISBN 978-80-87615-01-0 Introduction tablished not only between developed and developing In the age of IT technologies, it is progressively easier to countries but between any combinations of the two. Be- get in touch with people on the other side of the world. cause we believe that for mutual sharing and enriching La Ngonpo project helps students and their teachers to La Ngonpo means Blue Pass in Ladakhi. Ladakh is a re- through different points of view distance is not relevant; develop their skills of intercultural dialogue and to use mote area in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. It partners can even become schools from one country. the Internet as a tool of meaningful and ethical com- lies at an altitude of 3000 meters above sea level behind munication. the high passes of the western Himalayas and the Kara- The methodological manual enables teachers to koram Range. The inhabitants of this region lived prac- work with six thematic modules over the course of six We hope that this manual will be enriching and benefi- tically up to the 1970s isolated from the outside world. months. Students make several creative outputs in each cial for both you and your students. Thanks to these extreme conditions, a unique culture has module and upload them on the La Ngonpo website evolved and managed to survive up till today in Ladakh. (www.la-ngonpo.org) where they can communicate, Anna Fischerová Mountain passes used to symbolize the possibility to share their experience and discuss what they have Multicultural Center Prague meet people living on the other side of the mountain learned from the topic. The portal provides students range. For us, the Blue Pass is a metaphor relating to a with an opportunity to compare their opinion with that place where people from different parts of the world of a friend on the other side of the world. This helps can meet and learn about each other as well as to get to students to understand the relationships and links be- know themselves better. tween two distant parts of the world (be it developed and developing countries or not) and to form their own The project has been run in 2010 – 2012 under the auspices of The methodological manual that you are now reading scale of values. Multicultural Center Prague in cooperation with five other builds on Multicultural and Global Education Methodol- organizations: OnEarth – Society for Fair Trade, Brontosaurus ogy for Partnership of Czech and Ladakhi Schools of When we open the partner dialog, we have the oppor- Movement – Blue Stone, Fundacja Nowa Ameryka, Moravian the La Ngonpo project and develops it further for uni- tunity to enrich our knowledge and attitudes, to extend Mission Welfare Society in Leh and The Students’ Educational versal use anywhere in the world. The project is de- our view of the world around us and also to understand and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL). signed for students between 12 and 16 years of age and more of our own culture and learn about ourselves. their teachers at elementary and secondary schools. Therefore, we offer the possibility of interaction to students from different places and cultural contexts in About La Ngonpo Project our project. They are at the age when they form their The methodological manual La Ngonpo – a Meeting own attitudes and relationships with others, as well as This publication was funded by the European Union and by Point, introduces a methodology for school partnership with other nations and cultures. Mutual understanding the Czech Development Agency and the Ministry of Foreign that can be used anywhere in the world regardless of can help them to become confident and tolerant people Affairs within the Programme of Development Cooperation the cultural context. A school partnership can be es- who respect others. of the Czech Republic. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank all those who took part in commenting on and revising the methodology, namely: Vanessa Andreotti, Petra Antošová, Bohumil Auersperger, Siddharth Bose, Rinchen Dolkar, Anna Fischerová, Marie Krausová, Zuzana Kruťová, Karin Majerová, Rebecca Norman, Jitka Oláh, Tereza Rejšková, Lenka Sobotová, Jan Tvrdík, Jan Zemen, and Pavla Žufníčková. And to all those who took part in the development of the La Ngonpo website, namely: Jan Pipek, Michal Macek, Pavel Pipek, and Martin Vimr. The editor, Martina Pavlíčková, would like to give special thanks to Vanessa Andreotti (University of Oulu, Finland), who contributed to this methodology, not only with her comments, but with her personality and unique worldview and changed some of the authors´understanding of global education. We would also like to thank the schools and organizations who took part in the pilot program of this methodology (school year 2010/2011): Gymnázium J. Barranda, Beroun Moravian Mission School, Leh SECMOL - Students‘ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh Střední zdravotnická škola Ruská, Praha Škola s úsměvem – škola pro všechny, ZŠ Řehořova, Brno Tyršova základní škola, Brno ZŠ a MŠ Horníkova, Brno Table of Contents About our methodology 9 Module 3 – Migration 52 1. My Region 53 Before you start with the first module 11 2. Abdin 55 3. My Neighbours 59 Recommended rules 11 4. Migration Tree 64 Overview of Modules and Lessons 13 Module 4 – Beauty 70 1. Art 71 Module 1 – Circle 17 2. Our Class 77 1. Our Partners 18 3. Body Decoration 80 2. Circles 24 4. Firework 89 3. Collages 27 4. What Do We Have In Common? 29 Module 5 – Water 93 1. Virtual Water 94 Module 2 – Heroes 33 2. Plastic Sea 101 1. My Heroes 34 3. Big Fish 107 2. Hero Story 37 4. Change 111 3. Good or Bad? 41 4. My Principles 48 Module 6 – Together 115 1. Elephant 116 2. Exhibition Preparation I 120 3. Exhibition Preparation II 122 4. Farewell 125 Introduction About our methodology cial for life in the 21st century. Today’s world is rapidly year and holidays can be organized differently in your changing and is full of complexities and uncertainties. It schools, it is important to communicate with the coor- is precisely this ability to openly approach others - and dinator or other teachers from the partner school and There is not a day that goes by where we do not encoun- not fear situations where points of view collide - that agree beforehand on the course of the whole project. If ter people and their stories – stories that make us smile, can significantly help students in the future. There are a you are under time pressure, it is possible to complete stories that we hardly believe, or stories that make us number of questions beginning with “Why?” leading to only five of the modules. If this is the case, you should wonder. Each of us is a unique composition of experi- a critical approach to what is happening around us. agree on whether the Beauty or Water module better ences, dreams, places and people who have formed our meets the needs of your students. One of these two can personalities. Meeting people therefore represents a Modules And Structure be omitted without the integrity and goals of the whole unique opportunity to learn something new about the methodology being compromised. For communication world, about people around us and about ourselves. In the first module,Circle , students ask themselves ques- with the coordinator of the partner school, use the La But how can we open up to other stories? How can we tions about who they are and what connects them with Ngonpo website. learn from others? In the La Ngonpo methodology, we others, as well as what makes them different. One of the start with our own stories: who we are, what principles main topics is the origin of stereotypes and prejudices. we follow in our lives who has influenced us, what our The second module, Heroes, offers the possibility to re- Interaction and www.la-ngonpo.org relationship is to the place where we live, what connects flect on one’s own present and past heroes. It deals with Interaction and relationship-building between schools is us with people, and what is unique about us. These and different points of view on selected locally and globally fa- supported by the website www.la-ngonpo.org. During the other questions give students space to explore themsel- mous “heroes.” In the end, students reflect on what princi- whole project, students present their results from individual ves and their worldviews, shaped by when and where ples they follow in their own lives. The third module, Mi- lessons to each other on this website (e.g. collages, pho- they live. Once we admit that each person around us has gration, touches on our relationship to our surroundings tographs, questions, their own work, maps, surveys, etc.) his or her own perspective and way of thinking, which and to the people who have moved here, and it analyzes and they discuss them in lessons.

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