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Educating for democracy
2 – Work file 4: What are my basic attitudes towards students?
- Empathy, devotion (responsiveness to feelings, thoughts, views and needs), benevolent acceptance (personal esteem does not depend on any conditions), sincerity, stability, reliability
- Leadership in a spirit of esteem and respect (emotional devotion, inductive reasoning, authoritative control, support of social Integration and democracy)
Relationships and communication in the class
- Mutual understanding
- Symmetrie relationships
- Sexually non-discriminating co-education
- Meeting other people
- Friendship
- Verbal and non-verbal communication
- Adopting other perspectives and points of view
- Self-perception and pereeption by others
Atmosphere of conflict prevention
- Fair and caring Community, Community of learners, shared responsibilities (teachers and students – both male and female)
- Co-operation, not competition
- Social learning
- Rules and Conventions
- Meta-communication and meta-interaction
- Limitation and reinforcement
Educational measures
- Conflict resolution talks
- “Round table”
- Games
- Co-operation as guideline for modifying personal behaviour
- Supportive feedback
- Individual responsibilities
- Punishment
- Dealing with bullying and violence and in the class or school