in. As a last activity, the workshop leader directed the participants to work on projects about subjects they prefer. Two groups were formed to this end to work on the project’s aims, involvers, contents, partners and posters. At the end, two festival projects were formed and were presented to the participants of ‘Rebuilding Communication’ conference. During the workshop, participants also made gestures and sounds by using their body to express themselves and they had the chance to learn more about the other participants.
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS OF YOUTH’S ROLE IN TURKISH-GREEK DIALOGUE PROUDLY PRESENT:
LET’S COOK FOR THE GOOD A Four-Day Festival which will involve all the NGO’s. There will be workshops about the Greek and Turkish recipes and there will be discussions about the history of these foods. As a result there will be a book with all the recipes of the foods, the money that we will gain from the book will use for the help of the poor regions of Greece and Turkey. In general we want to bring together the two countries, to interact on an issue that is very common for them, to learn about the evolution of the foods after many years and to use a common issue for a good aim: to help the poor regions!
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“Our team aimed to plan exchanges and a festival”. 1st Exchange: For 1 week Greek participants would stay at a small town in Turkey, 2nd Exchange: For 1 week Turkish participants would stay at a small town in Greece. 1 Festival, 10 week performances on a boat. The participants would start from their countries on boats to meet in the middle of AEGEAN sea, navigate across the AEGEAN, and then go back again to their countries. During the exchanges, they would learn about the culture of the “other”. Lessons on Turkish or Greek dances, music, food. On the boat, they would perform everything they learnt and additionally professional artists would present some performances.
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3. THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN TURKISH-GREEK RELATIONS .......................................................
Recep Boztemur, Panagiotis Kontolemos Workshop Leaders
This workshop focused on the concept of education and the workshop participants stimulated discussions on the role of education in TurkishGreek relations and dialogue, contribution of education in the formation of stereotypes, the way history is taught in schools and the way it should be taught, the content of history textbooks, how national policies use history as a tool, and how to eliminate prejudices orienting from this issue. The workshop was supported by the statistics presented by the academics. The workshop participants decided to establish a mailing list to further discuss about their proposals towards projects advocating objective history writing. “This workshop on the role of education in Turkish- Greek Civic Dialogue mainly concentrated on how education might be an ideological tool for national policies and measures to be taken to diminish the stereotypes formed by national education policies. On the first day of the workshop, we had a motivating discussion moderated by AEGEE-Rodos member and archeology student Panagiotis Kontolemos and Turkish- Greek Civic Dialogue project manager Burcu Becermen from AEGEE-Ankara, on the role of education in the framework of Turkish- Greek relations. There were AEGEE members from Athens, Rhodes, Eskişehir, Izmir, Adana and Ankara branches, participants from Turkish History Foundation, AFDAG (Anatolian Folk Dance Group), students from Bosphorus and Istanbul Universities and history teaching staff from Sakarya University.”
MAIN POINTS OF DISCUSSION -
Why we need education and the ideological content of education How the content of textbooks effect the formation of stereotypes through years in each country How history is taught and should be taught in Greece and Turkey How history is constructed and used as a tool by societies and ideologies Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe