To identify the means of sensitization which make human communication become easier, the advantages of a life within the United Europe, to identify possible topics to be used in a play, we have made the following questionnaire:
Questionnaire
Make up a hierarchy of means of human sensitization which produce changes is human thinking, behavior, communication:
Means of expressions
Very much
Much
Enough
Little
Not at all
Music
Dance
Theatre
Picture
Sculpture
Film
Which of the above mentioned means of expression do you find as the most appropriate for you, for your group, or for the community you live in??
Considering both the present circumstances of accomplishing the extended European Union and living in your own country, what advantages/disadvantages do you think you have, according to your belonging to :
System of reference
Advantages
Disavantages
Group
Family
Community
Among your acquaintances are there young people who (during the socialization process) feel discriminated according to:
-Sex
-Nationality
-Religion
-Material resources
-Clothing
If so, how do you think these could be overcome?
Suggest a subject on this topic which may be used as a script for a play.
What advantages do you think that the western European teenager(child) has that eastern European teenagers don’t?
What about the eastern teenager (child) in rapport to the western one?
Which are the sources of information on the eastern/western European child’s life?
What similar trades do the teenagers have, reported to the future Europe
Which are the conditions for achieving a good communication, a mutual knowing and building up the future Europe, between the Romanian teenagers and the ones from Western Europe?
What principles ought to be followed in this relationship?
Suggest a set of rules, based on which the tomorrow European society, whose active citizens you will be, (should work) could work properly.
What contribution may be brought in this building up, without a precedent, by?
Parents?
Teachers?
Yourselves?
What will you teach your children, in order to live in the society you build up for them?
Which are the problems that world confronts to nowadays?
Age
Religion
Known languages
Access to the internet
Participations at chats
Hobbies
The previous questionnaire was filled in by 54 students and 4 teachers.These students are between 15 and 18 (20 pupils are 15-16 years old, 34 of them are 17-18.)They are students at the following prifiles: mathematics-informatics ,English-bilingual,mathematics-informatics intensive,and nursery school teachers-primary school teachers .According to answers to the questions made up in the questionnaire, the drawn conclusions are:
From the point of view of the ones who answered the questions, the means of sensitization which determine changes in the thinking , the behavior and the human communication, are:
Very much: the music and the movie
Much: the theatre
Medium: the dancing
Little: the sculpture and the painting
The most efficient ways of expression and communication identified by the ones who answered the questions, both for them and for the groups they belong to are:
The music ;
The movie ;
The theatre.
he advantages which the ones who answered the questions consider they might have, on the condition of the building up on the European Union, but living in their own country are:
-Depending on the affiliation to the family: mutual understanding,education,a better way of life ,financial advantages,the increased possibilities to educate children,etc.
-Depending on the affiliation to a community ;
-the respect for the human being,decent condition of living ,a well organized Society ,the diminution of divergences, free circulation,a lower level of pollution ,the increase of investments,the superior formation as adults,etc.
he advantages which the ones who answered the questions consider they might have, on the condition of the building up on the European Union, but living in their own country are:
-Depending on the affiliation to the family: mutual understanding,education,a better way of life ,financial advantages,the increased possibilities to educate children,etc.
-Depending on the affiliation to a community ;
-the respect for the human being,decent condition of living ,a well organized Society ,the diminution of divergences, free circulation,a lower level of pollution ,the increase of investments,the superior formation as adults,etc.
The most frequent ways of discrimination met b the people who answered the questionare among their acquaintances depend on:
-financial situation/social status
-religion
-nationality
Any kind of discrimination can be overcome only with:
-changing the mentalities with education
-the endorsement of some antidiscrimination laws
-guaranteeing the minorities rights
-tolerance
-the development of some specific programmes and their presentation in ass-media
Possible themes for the theatre plays regarding the discrimation and its overcoming :
-a teenager has to give up his studies so that he could offer his family a financial support
-a young girl with a poor financial situation was fighting for continuing her studies ,affirming herself and overcoming her social status
-the parents of a teenager don’t accept their son’s best friends because he is gipsy
-a jewish boy with o poor financial situation has to a face the violence of a group of catholic teenager because a girl of their group had fallenin in love with him
-a hightschool in wich pupils of different nationalies ,religions and with a different social atatus learn
-the discrimination of poor children
-a real problem of teenagers-their way of wearing clothes;
The peple who answered the questionnaire consider that the advantages of teenager from the west reported to the ones the Est are the following :
-better conditions of living and education
-the variety of information
-well –aquiped scools ,the chance of involving in school and afterschool projects
-the report ,the communication ,the understanding and the acceptance of differences,multual respect ,the emphaty
-hight technology
-social protection
-a stable social and political system
-the real access to free services
-a favourable social, context for developing educational activity
-the involvement in the community where they live
The advantages of the teenagers from the East reported to the ones from the west are:
-the intelligence and the ability to accept ti any environment
-the will to affirm no matter the social status
-the will of liberty and affirmation
-the desire of liberty
-a more responsible conduct
-a sense realy
Sources of information concerning Eastern – European teenagers’lives :
-The Internet
-The television
-E-mail
-Massmedia
-Documentary films
-Publication
-etc
General features of the teenagers ,reported to future Europe:
-accss of information and communication
-the desire of having a better ,prousperous future
-desire to know and to be informed
-the receptivity,inteligence
-a competitive spirit
- knowing a language of international circulation
-liberty,
-tolerance
Condictions for developing both a good communication and a mutual knowing between Romanian and Western-European teenagers within the process of building up the future Europe:
-the collaboration and exchanges of experience
-solidarity
-mutual respect
-obeying the laws
-access to the internet in all schools
-Romania’s integration in the UE;adopting and obeying their laws
-knowing as many as possible foreign languages school af all levels;
-mutual knowledge of culture,customes and traditions and last but not least their mutual acceptance
The principles that have to be taken account in this interaction and the fallwing ones:
-tolerance and mutual respect
-the liberty of espressing your opinions and respecting the others dignity
-cooperation and understanding
-aguality and acceptance
-mutual confidence
-egual rights
- honest ,friendship,solidarity
The ones who have answered the questionnaire detected the folowing regulations and rules according to which the tomorrow European society will function.
Respect for others,
Fairness
Implication in the evolution of the society
The respect for traditions,
The respect of authorities towards citizensand the other way round,the exclusion of discriminations
t the building of Europe can contribute:
Parents:
To encourage children to know and respect others
To teach children to be responsive at new ideas
To form their children a correct and realistic image of the European Union
To encourage their children to respect the rules imposed by society and the European Community
To give more freedom and trust to the youth, to facilitate their implication in as much as possible social actions
To assure their children the best conditions for education and to educate them in the European spirit
Teachers :
To diminish theorization in favour of interactive, creative and pragmatic activities
To inform pupils with concern to EU, to present pupils their rights and responsibilities
To educate pupils in the principles of the European spirit
To inform ,to remove the prejudices and stereotypes about EU
To form responsible behaviours and attitudes
Adolescents themselves
to respect laws and rules and to contribute to putting them to a good use
to involve in the life of the community and the one of the society they live in
to be open to new ideas
to prepare themselves intensively for a competitional economy
to use the received information,the instilled values and to transmit them further
To live in the world they are preparing for them, the ones who answer this questionnaire will teach their children:
To be responsible, to respect the others, to accept new challenges
To be clever and open minded
To take risks, to work hard
To trust themselves and to express and sustain their opinions
To respect the law
To take every chance
To not have preconceived ideas, to be good citizens, to involve in social life
To respect traditions
To be optimistic and hardworking
To cherish ,above all the people’s character
To try their best so that they leave behind a better world
From our pupils’ answers resulted the need of intercultural communication ,respect towards the others ,towards their values.
The pupils accept differences ,they are prepared to solve them efficiently ,they recommend mutual acceptance and the respect of human rights.
They think that through knowledge ,acceptance and interaction with the other ethnic groups can contribute to the diminishing of one’s prejudices about the others.
They believe in co-operation and solidarity. They display their desire of knowledge and information.
The artistic language (music, film, theatre)contribute to the achievement of intercultural communication. This hierarchy established by the ones who answer the questionary(music, film, dance, theatre)can be explained by the fact that theatre ,as form of manifest of the human sensibility, gathers all the others.
The advantages of the children in the West reported to the ones who live in the East are well identified ,according to the advantages ,the rights and the possibilities, which children in a democratic state,in a stable, well organized society have.
The respect towards law,norms, involvement in the community’s life , responsibilities, competitiveness, receptivity are values which children want to bild up their life on within the European community.
