Manual for teachers

An international team of educators developed these educational tools – four scenarios of educational modules to be used in teaching about the Righteous and the Silent Heroes in order to promote civil courage, tolerance and democracy in today’s society.

The first workshop scenario, connecting stories of the Righteous with our current reality, was created in 2005 by a group of youth workers from Poland, Germany and Israel within a project initiated by the Edith Stein Society. Over the last five years it has been delivered nearly 50 times in all three countries by youth workers participating in four different editions of the project. The scenarios proposed in this manual are based on those experiences and were developed at two working meetings held in Wrocław between February and April 2010. Trials of the work were organised by experts from educational teams in their local communities. A total of 130 youngsters were reached across ten workshops in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Germany.

The proposed workshop scenarios can be used both within the school and outside the school environment, for youngsters from 15 – 18 years old. Additionally, they can be easily adapted for older learners. The scenarios can be used with the proposed stories together with “content free” methods with other stories of the Righteous and Helpers. The manual is available in a paper version and online in Polish, German, English, Slovak and Czech.

To acquire a printed copy of this manual please contact the organisers at: dyrektor@edytastein.org.pl

An online version is also available: here