“Facing Diversity – Living Diversity in Germany and Israel”: ConAct – Coordination Center German-Israeli Youth Exchange hosted a one-day professional forum on June 22, 2017 in Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Haus in Berlin. “Life in open and democratic societies has been an important topic in German-Israeli education and exchange programs for decades and is at the same time in…
While our societies change and become increasingly diverse, there is a rising awareness that we need to face the challenges that come along with it. Given the demand for educational tools and methods it is not surprising that the educational landscape offers more and more opportunities to gain knowledge on diversity-conscious education. Hereafter you will…
Read more News From Others: Seminars on Diversity-Conscious Education in Germany
For more than one year, professionals from the field of youth work and youth exchange in Germany and Israel have been sharing their experience, expertise and questions around diversity-conscious education in their countries. On June 21, 2017 the advisory council of the project “Living Diversity in Germany and Israel” met for the 3rd time to…
Read more Advisory Council’s Midterm Reflection on the Project
Since autumn 2015 ConAct has been working on fostering the exchange on diversity in Germany and Israel through various bilateral events within the frame of the project “Living Diversity in Germany and Israel – Challenges and Perspectives for Education and Youth Exchange”. The newly released booklet Living Diversity in Germany and Israel: Snapshots – Contemplations…
Yonathan Bar-On is a historian (specializations: French Jewry, anti-Semitism, and migrants in Europe) and an English teacher at the Leo Baeck Education Center in Haifa. He emigrated to Israel from the Netherlands in 1995. At his school, which takes part in and is responsible for a wide range of international and multicultural activities, Yonathan has…