1. SUCCESSFUL EDUCATIONAL
ACTIONS FOR PREVENTING
VIOLENCE AND RADICALIZATION:
TRAINING FOR FAMILIES
Verónica Rivera
Secondary Public School “Almina”
Ceuta, Spain
The 23rd Meeting of the Council of Europe Network of Co-
ordinators for Education for Democratic Citizenship and
Human Rights Education
Istanbul, Turkey
April 16, 2015

2. A FEW MINUTES TO SHOW…
• Information and data
• Starting point
• What is a Successful
Educational Action?
• What are SEA based on?
• Which of them are carried
out in Ceuta/Spain?
• What are SEA used for?

3. INFORMATION AND DATA
• Population of Ceuta: 80.000
inhabitants.
• Population density 3700
inh/km 2, the highest in Spain.
• High unemployement rates
• Mother language of 42% of
population and 75% of
children in Primary School:
dariya (dialect of arabic).
• Further information.

4. STARTING POINT
• Academic failure
• Increasing (physical,
psychological, verbal)
violence
• Prejudices
• Radicalism (thoughts,
behaviour, belief)
• Even incorporation to
radical religious and
political movements

5. WHAT ARE SUCCESSFUL
EDUCATIONAL ACTIONS BASED ON?
• SEA are based on:
• Egalitarian dialogue
• Democracy culture
• Heterogeneus and
diverse groups
• Equal relations
• Everyone has a voice
and all the voices are
important

6. WHICH OF THEM ARE CARRIED
OUT IN CEUTA/SPAIN?

7. INTERACTIVE GROUPS
Heterogeneous grouping in the classroom with
reorganisation of human resources.

8. The organisation of the classroom in IGs has been identified as
one of the Successful Educational Actions (SEAs) in the
Integrated Project INCLUDE-ED (2006-2011), which has been
designated as one of the 10 successful projects -the only one in
the field of Social Sciences and Humanities- of the Research
Framework Programmes (European Commission, 2011).

9. DIALOGIC LITERARY
GATHERINGS
DLG is a dialogic learning
environment that improves
reading skills and
communicative abilities
and promotes school–
community links.
Readings in DLG are
classic literary works. Ex.:
Robinson Crusoe, Ana
Frank Diary, Oliver Twist,
La Celestina…

10. FAMILY TRAINING
- Talks about gendre, social
networks, educations laws,
healthy habits…
- Workshops with NGOs.

11. SOCIAL
MEDIA/NET
WORKS

12. CONCLUSION
Successful Educational Actions:
- Increase self-esteem of the families and children.
- Contribute to transform family interactions at home and
consequently, to improve the dialogue; therefore the family
feel more confident to help the children/youth.
- The family is empowered through the SEA, social networks
(no fear for using them).
- The families can offer alternatives to spend the time (one of
the worries mentioned by the mothers) against radical
behaviours.
- Instrumental learning and values are learned
simultaneously.

13. Verónica Rivera
@vriverareyes vriverareyes@gmail.com
http://veronicariverareyes.blogspot.com.es