{"id":10856,"date":"2026-07-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/?p=10856"},"modified":"2026-07-21T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:46:22","slug":"seeing-through-different-glasses-a-week-of-tolerance-and-empathy-in-tenerife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/fr\/blog\/seeing-through-different-glasses-a-week-of-tolerance-and-empathy-in-tenerife","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Through Different Glasses: A Week of Tolerance and Empathy in Tenerife\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As teachers and education staff, we always aim for our students to be successful, to have the right knowledge, skills and attitudes to find their best place in the society we live in. Our modern society is extremely diversified as well as multicultural and, as such, promoting diversity and tolerance in the classroom has become a crucial goal for teachers, schools and adult education. Building empathetic and open-minded characters can make a real impact for learners and for the whole society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new edition of the course <strong>\u201cDiversity in the classroom: teaching tolerance and overcoming prejudices and discrimination<\/strong>\u201d took place in <strong>Tenerife <\/strong>from <strong>5 to 11 July 2026.<\/strong> Participants joined from across Europe, including Marin, Tomislav, Lidija and Luka from <strong>Pu\u010dko otvoreno u\u010dili\u0161te Brod<\/strong> in Croatia; Maria Antonietta, Vincenza and Raika from <strong>Istituto Omnicomprensivo Primo Levi<\/strong> in Italy; Brunella Maria and Manuela from <strong>L.A. Muratori<\/strong> in Italy; Daire from the <strong>Gaiety School of Acting<\/strong> in Ireland; Martina and Monika from <strong>SO\u0160Z a SOU \u010cesk\u00fd Krumlov<\/strong> in the Czech Republic; Barbara from Bocskai <strong>Istv\u00e1n Reformed Primary School<\/strong> <strong>and Kindergarten<\/strong> in Hungary; and Anett from <strong>J\u00e1szber\u00e9nyi Nagyboldogasszony Katolikus \u00d3voda, K\u00e9ttannyelv\u0171 \u00c1ltal\u00e1nos Iskola, K\u00f6z\u00e9piskola \u00e9s Koll\u00e9gium<\/strong> in Hungary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The week opened with a question that sounds simple but rarely is: who are we, really? Instead of starting from theory, the group started from themselves. Each teacher was asked to draw a self-portrait split into two halves, one showing what the world sees at first glance, the other showing the values, memories and beliefs that are not visible at all. Sharing those portraits made one thing immediately clear: the way we read the world, and the way we read our students, is filtered through an identity we rarely stop to examine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-content-slider-02924698\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-content-slider o-content-slider\" style=\"--o-per-view:1;--o-gap:0px;--o-height:auto\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"Content slider\" data-autoplay=\"false\" data-delay=\"5\" data-loop=\"true\"><div class=\"o-content-track\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider-d43788d9\" class=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-slider glide\" data-per-view=\"1\" data-gap=\"0\" data-peek=\"0\" data-autoplay=\"true\" data-height=\"400px\" data-hide-arrows=\"false\"><div class=\"glide__track\" data-glide-el=\"track\"><div class=\"glide__slides\"><div 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Peninsula\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Mix images, text, buttons and more.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/5.3\/MtBlanc1.jpg\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Mont Blanc\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/5.3\/MtBlanc1.jpg\" alt=\"Mont Blanc\"><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Each group becomes one slide.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"o-content-arrows\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"o-content-arrow o-content-arrow--prev\" aria-label=\"Previous slide\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M15 6l-6 6 6 6\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><button type=\"button\" class=\"o-content-arrow o-content-arrow--next\" aria-label=\"Next slide\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path fill=\"none\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2\" stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M15 6l-6 6 6 6\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div><div class=\"o-content-dots\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From there, <strong>the group moved on to the challenges of recognising and promoting cultural diversity in real classrooms.<\/strong> A TED talk sparked a lively discussion on why asking \u201cwhere are you local?\u201d can be far more revealing than asking \u201cwhere are you from?\u201d. What shapes our learners is not a passport but the layers of culture they carry: family, neighbourhood, language, school, friendships&nbsp; all interconnected and all constantly evolving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No conversation about diversity is complete without addressing stereotypes. Participants looked at where stereotypes come from, why our brains find them so convenient, and what they cost us when they go unchallenged. Using storytelling as a working tool, the group traced the path a stereotype can travel: from a harmless generalisation, to a judgement, and eventually to exclusion and discrimination. Seeing that mechanism unfold step by step made it much easier to recognise it in everyday school life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The course then turned to awareness and respect. <\/strong>If our identity is the pair of glasses through which we see reality, then no two people in a classroom are looking at exactly the same picture.<strong> <\/strong>Through simulations and critical-thinking activities, teachers experienced how personal values shape culture and how culture, in turn, shapes personal values, a two-way street that plays out in every group of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Belonging was the next focus. Rather than talking about inclusion in the abstract, participants took part in dynamics designed to let them feel what exclusion actually feels like from the inside, and how much effort it takes to open a group up to someone new. The geese exercise, with its different leadership styles, worked particularly well here and generated one of the richest debriefs of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final theme was empathy. The group explored emotions and feelings and practised the deceptively difficult skill of stepping into someone else&#8217;s shoes. Being aware of our own emotions is essential, but so is training ourselves and our students to name and express them. That is where tolerance stops being a value written on a poster and starts becoming a classroom habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10860 lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_4501-1-scaled.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between sessions, the cultural activities in Tenerife gave participants the chance to keep the conversation going in a completely different setting, exchange practices from seven different education systems and build the kind of connections that outlast a training week. All in all, it was a bright week full of new knowledge, hands-on practice, sharing, deep conversations, ideas and emotions&nbsp; and a toolkit that each participant can now take straight back to their own classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discover more about this course <a href=\"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/teaching-diversity\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As teachers and education staff, we always aim for our students to be successful, to have the right knowledge, skills and attitudes to find their best place in the society we live in. 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