Methods

The workshop concept can be used to clarify the following question: Which projects, activities and methods in adult education can be used in order to help fostering and/or developing a European awareness or European identity.

Woman or man - how do young and old see the gender roles? Pupils slip into the role of the opposite sex and play with the stereotypes and prejudices of the times when the grandfather or grandmothers were their age. For this purpose, the students aged 16 and 17 interviewed their grandmother or grandfather. For the photographs that were being taken, they changed into the opposite sex and were styled in the way their grandparents looked when they were their age.

Contemporary witnesses are people who are able to give insights on historical events and traditions, since they lived during that time. Contemporary witnesses work focuses on these witnesses, and refines their experiences for the public, and in some cases, it also helps the contemporary witnesses themselves to better understand their past.