Understanding Diversity through Collaborative and Creative Workshops and across Different Contexts. Issue 3 (17th December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Papouli, Eleni
• Is Part Of: Practice. Volume 33:Issue 3(2021)
• Page Start: 171
• Page End: 190
• Publication Date: 2020-12-17
• Subjects: diversity training -- creative methods and techniques -- social work -- human service professionals -- school teachers -- diversity dolls; Social service -- Periodicals; 361.005
• DOI: 10.1080/09503153.2020.1865297
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0950-3153

Abstract

Abstract : This paper is based on a project titled 'Diversity Dolls' which was developed to raise awareness about the benefits of fostering diversity among and within different contexts and audiences. The Diversity Dolls are creative tools to use as a pedagogic approach to training social workers and allied professionals in the area of diversity awareness. The project is a creative, multi-approach, training method that successfully combines the use of dolls with collaborative and creative activities such as story writing, storytelling, dramatisation of written stories and role playing. The project was piloted through two workshops involving 27 professionals from different disciplines in order to prepare themselves for the practical implementation in social services and various prevention centres and schools (primary and secondary schools). This paper presents the 'Diversity Dolls' project and describes its implementation and evaluation in the context of the two pilot workshops in Greece.