Challenging Misconceptions
The course outline:
January 2012
This course is designed for anyone who has to deal with or prevent the consequences of extremism, discrimination and misconception in society. It is suitable for any one who works in the community, or educators who need to promote community cohesion, citizenship, tolerance and understanding either as trainers of adults or teachers of young people.
It is a perfect and unique opportunity to explore the misconceptions that we are faced with in society and understand how they lead to discrimination and extremism. In the light of religious and racial intolerance you will be given the opportunity to challenge these misconceptions, ask your own questions and develop a sense of the responsibility and duty that we all have to ensure that extremism and intolerance is not allowed to flourish within our community.
This is a two and a half hour course with refreshments and lunch which is designed for you to be able to return to your places of employment with clear goals as to how to promote cohesion, harmony and respect within your community, and remove the circumstances which create a fertile breeding ground for extremist thought and activity.
Training Programme January 2012
4.00 pm Registration
4.15 pm Introduction (delegates)
4.25 pm Brief Course outline and objectives
4.30 pm Legal definition of Race Relations Act and what it means to you
4.35 pm Case Scenarios and exercise
4.50 pm Analysis, exercise and feedback
4.55 pm Tour of a Mosque
5.15 pm Break
5.30 pm Give out handouts on national headline stories
5.40 pm Talk about impact of immigration, racism, unemployment, education and community relations, encourage discussion
6.00 pm Give background to headline stories and play clip from The Now Show
6.05 pm Look at impact of perceived headlines and their consequences
6.15 pm Answer questions raised during discussion and look at ways forward, courses of actions, how to avoid pitfalls
6.25 pm Evaluation
6.30 pm Conclude