From June 15 to 19, we conducted a series of educational workshops that are an integral part of the project titled Choose culture, with hate speech you are not yourself! 

Our workshop was attended by students from schools in the city of Chorzów: Juliusz Słowacki High School No. 1 and Juliusz Ligon High School No. 2, as well as students from the Jan III Sobieski School Complex No. 6 in Jastrzębie-Zdrój.

During the workshop, students learned how to recognize and distinguish between hate speech and verbal aggression, what are the consequences of hate speech, created an emotional word cloud of the person being abused. They also learned ways to deal with verbal aggression, learned to distinguish between verbal aggression and constructive criticism, they worked in teams on catchphrases promoting non-hate speech. During both parts of the workshop, interesting remote learning solutions were used, so students were also able to test their own marketing skills and developed great slogans for countering verbal aggression.

The workshop was prepared in cooperation with the Polish Language Culture Association and the Student Scientific Association of Linguists.

Other elements of the project include the implementation of am outdoor urban game and meetings with a linguist, which will also address issues related to verbal aggression. 

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Goals:

1. Increase the language competence and communication skills of the beneficiaries through participation in workshops led by experts;
2. Forming attitudes of tolerance and openness by working on slogans to combat hate speech and the verbal aggression;
3. Popularizing correct language behavior through an urban game;
4. Integration of entities representing different environments through cooperation in the implementation of activities in the project;
5. Giving equal access to proper Polish among a wide audience included those excluded due to their place of residence by organizing workshops in poor areas with entities promoting cultural activities;
6. Forming creative, responsible and aware attitudes towards the mother tongue;
7. Encouraging young people to spend their free time actively outside their homes by playing games in urban spaces;
8. Increase spatial orientation skills by having participants work in the open terrain and navigate it with the use of a map.

Project results:

1. Expanding knowledge of communicative and linguistic effectiveness among the recipients of the task;
2. Raise the awareness of the participants to the various forms of verbal aggression;
3. Strengthening awareness of the role of language in the communication process;
4. Closing the gap in access to culture among those excluded due to demographic barriers;
5. Integration of various groups : experts, representatives of the world of education, culture and the third sector;
6. Drawing the attention of a wide range of Polish users to the problems of hate speech, verbal aggression, through the distribution of promotional materials (e.g., bags, pins, magnets).
7. Carrying out 3 workshop series for young people and free access to workshop scenarios ( popularized through social media);
8. Acquiring by the participants the ability to express negative emotions non-violently in their native language.

Source of funding: 

NCK, program Ojczysty – dodaj do ulubionych’

Implementation date:

March - October 2020

Beneficiaries of the project:

High school students, Chorzów citizens, teachers