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OSCE Skopje Mission helps train teachers to work in multi-ethnic pre-schools
SKOPJE 16 December 2005
SKOPJE, 16 December 2005 - Raising the standards of pre-school education and ensuring the inclusion of all ethnic groups, especially marginalized ones, was the aim of a series of workshops that ended today in Skopje.
Twenty school teachers of different ethnic backgrounds from five pre-schools were trained under the project, supported by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje.
"We are confident that this type of project will contribute, through the education system, to the peaceful and harmonious development of civil society, which would respect the ethnic identity and the interests of all citizens," said Brenda Gallagher, an OSCE Mission Education Development Officer. "This kind of education can help prevent possible ethnic conflicts."
A number of recommendations from the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities were used for the development of the training programme, methodologies and materials.
Verica Mojsovska, a pre-school teacher, said: "Thanks to our Ministry and the OSCE, I learned new interactive teaching methods and understood better the benefits and challenges of a multi-ethnic society. I am looking forward to using these skills to improve inter-cultural dialogue in pre-schools among kids and teachers."
Twenty school teachers of different ethnic backgrounds from five pre-schools were trained under the project, supported by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje.
"We are confident that this type of project will contribute, through the education system, to the peaceful and harmonious development of civil society, which would respect the ethnic identity and the interests of all citizens," said Brenda Gallagher, an OSCE Mission Education Development Officer. "This kind of education can help prevent possible ethnic conflicts."
A number of recommendations from the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities were used for the development of the training programme, methodologies and materials.
Verica Mojsovska, a pre-school teacher, said: "Thanks to our Ministry and the OSCE, I learned new interactive teaching methods and understood better the benefits and challenges of a multi-ethnic society. I am looking forward to using these skills to improve inter-cultural dialogue in pre-schools among kids and teachers."