Edukacja Krytyczna

We change

There is no boredom in our activities, we are ready and take every initiative – we call it the pedagogy of everyday life. Everyday life is our interdisciplinary performance indicator around which we build our practices. In our projects, we combine social work and urban space, science and creativity, both locally and internationally, resulting in such projects as:

We leave no one behind. We are able to mobilize ourselves in a crisis, we give each other feedback, we act and mobilize ourselves in crisis situations. Prevention and intervention.

We support migrants and intercultural neighborhood

We integrate and support mothers

We support migrants and intercultural neighborhood

We integrate and support mothers

Three Local Activity Centers:

CAT

New Meadows

Hubska

Three Local Activity Centers:

CAT

New Meadows

Hubska

Reading the city: research and animation in space

A research and animation project carried out in six selected cities of Lower Silesia as part of the Lower Silesian Platform ECC 2016+. High school and primary school students, together with animators from the Association of Critical Education, had been collecting material for the exhibition for several months. In the interviews, we discovered the resident’s longing for the river. We will keep the memory of it alive in a following way: near the market square, a boat with memories collected using a method inspired by Perec’s prose and activities of the Karpowicz Foundation from Wrocław: “I remember that…”

“Outdoor Animation” – a concept of educational and animation activities through and in nature

The good practice developed by us will be the expansion and deepening of activities in the field of “outdoor education” as one of the actions carried out as part of the project: “Secret Rural Lessons: peer tutoring program”. The practice we have chosen is based on combining educational and animation activities and  implementing them in and through the natural environment. We understand outdoor animation as an original concept based on various activities of participants outside the classroom, common room, training room – outside, in the natural environment.

Open Neighborhoods

Needs diagnosis and development of a model of adaptation and integration activities in Wrocław residential neighborhoods, with a special emphasis on the people who arrived from Ukraine because of the war in the region.

New Meadows Residents Integration Center (Open Neighborhoods)

81 Traugutta Street, New Meadows is a place located in between historic (post German) and architecturally interesting tenement houses of the Przedmieście Oławskie, – a neighborhood that is currently undergoing renovation aimed at bringing life and beauty back to it. In a 4- story building, we run workshops for children, teenagers, and adults from Poland and Ukraine, as well as everyone else interested in spending time creatively with others. We also organize circus training and many others. New Meadows is a meeting place.

Tarnograj Intercultural Activity Center (Open Neighborhoods)

CAT – Tarnogaj Activity Center is a place where we organize and run many workshops, festivals, picnics, and group meetings for children, teenagers, and adults from Poland and Ukraine, as well as everyone else interested in spending time creatively with others. We also offer support from experts, educators, therapists, and multicultural assistants.

Cluster Hubska 7

Cluster Hubska 7 is an intercultural integration space open to all people with migration experiences coming to Lower Silesia. Together, we create a safe place for both newcomers and permanent residents of the region. We build a local, intercultural community based on empathy, trust and cooperation, despite language differences, views, and values that separate us. We created the Cluster in May 2022 in response to the needs of war refugees fleeing to Poland because of Russia’s brutal military aggression against Ukraine.

Mosaic of Wrocław, Wrocław city mosaic, supporting migrant families

Mosaic is the name of the first youth club we founded. It expresses how we see the purpose of our actions: to create something common out of diversity. It is a creative space where we set our boundaries together. The activities resulted in four publications containing their evaluation and recommendations for multicultural work.

DRC

We conduct intercultural and intergenerational activities at the Open Place – Center for Intercultural Integration in Wrocław, which we co-create as part of the project “Protection of forcibly displaced persons through community centers in Poland” in cooperation with Culture Kaleidoscope Nomada Association by the initiative of the Danish Refugee Council UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

Reading the city: research and animation in space

A research and animation project carried out in six selected cities of Lower Silesia as part of the Lower Silesian Platform ECC 2016+. High school and primary school students, together with animators from the Association of Critical Education, had been collecting material for the exhibition for several months. In the interviews, we discovered the resident’s longing for the river. We will keep the memory of it alive in a following way: near the market square, a boat with memories collected using a method inspired by Perec’s prose and activities of the Karpowicz Foundation from Wrocław: “I remember that…”

“Outdoor Animation” – a concept of educational and animation activities through and in nature

The good practice developed by us will be the expansion and deepening of activities in the field of “outdoor education” as one of the actions carried out as part of the project: “Secret Rural Lessons: peer tutoring program”. The practice we have chosen is based on combining educational and animation activities and  implementing them in and through the natural environment. We understand outdoor animation as an original concept based on various activities of participants outside the classroom, common room, training room – outside, in the natural environment.

Open Neighborhoods

Needs diagnosis and development of a model of adaptation and integration activities in Wrocław residential neighborhoods, with a special emphasis on the people who arrived from Ukraine because of the war in the region.

New Meadows Residents Integration Center (Open Neighborhoods)

81 Traugutta Street, New Meadows is a place located in between historic (post German) and architecturally interesting tenement houses of the Przedmieście Oławskie, – a neighborhood that is currently undergoing renovation aimed at bringing life and beauty back to it. In a 4- story building, we run workshops for children, teenagers, and adults from Poland and Ukraine, as well as everyone else interested in spending time creatively with others. We also organize circus training and many others. New Meadows is a meeting place.

Tarnograj Intercultural Activity Center (Open Neighborhoods)

CAT – Tarnogaj Activity Center is a place where we organize and run many workshops, festivals, picnics, and group meetings for children, teenagers, and adults from Poland and Ukraine, as well as everyone else interested in spending time creatively with others. We also offer support from experts, educators, therapists, and multicultural assistants.

Cluster Hubska 7

Cluster Hubska 7 is an intercultural integration space open to all people with migration experiences coming to Lower Silesia. Together, we create a safe place for both newcomers and permanent residents of the region. We build a local, intercultural community based on empathy, trust and cooperation, despite language differences, views, and values that separate us. We created the Cluster in May 2022 in response to the needs of war refugees fleeing to Poland because of Russia’s brutal military aggression against Ukraine.

Mosaic of Wrocław, Wrocław city mosaic, supporting migrant families

Mosaic is the name of the first youth club we founded. It expresses how we see the purpose of our actions: to create something common out of diversity. It is a creative space where we set our boundaries together. The activities resulted in four publications containing their evaluation and recommendations for multicultural work.

DRC

We conduct intercultural and intergenerational activities at the Open Place – Center for Intercultural Integration in Wrocław, which we co-create as part of the project “Protection of forcibly displaced persons through community centers in Poland” in cooperation with Culture Kaleidoscope Nomada Association by the initiative of the Danish Refugee Council UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.

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