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The ACODDEN project ‘Citizenship Education for Diversity: Best Practices and Recommendations’ was launched in 2006 with the support of the Socrates Accompanying Measures programme and co-financing from the San Paolo Foundation. This project aimed to gather and examine national experiences in the field of citizenship and diversity education with a view to recommending a framework and guidelines for the development and strengthening of curricula at national levels across Europe. Outcomes included the creation of an inventory of existing practices in citizenship education for diversity in 5 European countries (Belgium, England, France, Hungary & Latvia) and operational guidelines on how to implement diversity education in the school curriculum. Click here for further details

The A CLASSROOM OF DIFFERENCE™ Diversity Education Network (ACODDEN) arose out of CEJI’s experience with the A CLASSROOM OF DIFFERENCE™ training programme. It was established by CEJI in 2000 to serve as a European platform in the field of intercultural education with the support of the EU Comenius 2 programme and consolidated with the help of three-year funding (2001 – 2004) from the EU Comenius 3 programme and the Levi Strauss Foundation.

The network, which gathers partners with differing and complementary approaches to diversity education and uses their experiences to develop and disseminate exchanges of best practice in the field of diversity education, aims to achieve an intercultural society and combat discrimination in all of its forms.

There are numerous approaches in Europe and around the world for providing diversity education and addressing intercultural relations in the school environment. The purpose of ACODDEN is to bring together experts in these fields to provide an interdisciplinary approach to understanding diversity education. Network participants come from a variety of disciplines, including pedagogy, psychology, organisational development, sociology, history, political sciences and philology. All of these approaches have much to contribute to understanding intercultural issues and defining skills and strategies for use within an educational environment.

Some of the thematic approaches considered are intercultural communication, anti-prejudice education, mediation and conflict intervention educational programmes, migration, Shoah education, multilingual education and the arts in schools.

The network is composed of 24 partners, including non-profit organisations, universities, schools, teacher-training institutes and educational resource experts from 8 European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain).

ACODDEN has brought together hundreds of enthusiastic educators to exchange experiences, share their knowledge and build common projects as follows:
  • The elaboration of a theoretical framework defining the main components of diversity education.
  • The exchange of practices between partners through meetings and workgroups.
  • The elaboration of a structured website providing resources and working tools to the educative sector in Europe and to other actors involved in the thematic (no longer online).
  • The organisation of annual International Conferences
  • The production of publications on diversity education issues by workgroups on interpersonal relations; education programmes in diversity, peace and citizenship for children and adolescents; and intercultural documentation centres.
For further details about ACODDEN contact Robin Sclafani.