Lärarfortbildning/Teacher training concerning right wing extremism
Forum för Levande Historia, a Swedish institution dedicated to combating intolerance in society, will be running a series of teacher training programmes concerning right wing extremism in Sweden in 2013. In an eye-catching mix of offerings the trainings take up, among other things, an insight into the legacy of racial biological thinking and the role [...]
En bild av dyslexi/A picture of dyslexia
Musician Susanna Cederqvist doesn’t just happen to be a musician. Her being dyslexic is connected to her musicality in a very real way! Susanna, who lectures about various aspects of dyslexia, including addressing the question of whether dyslexia is just a “problem,” has recently created images of how dyslexics see words. Her aim is to [...]
De kärleksfulla/The Loving
Stories for Society vill tipsa dig om en dokumentärfilm som handlar om väldigt pratglada personer som är orädda för människor det inte känner. Läs om Williams syndrom. Missa inte filmen! —————————————- This film about William’s syndrome caught our attention for many reasons. One is that it truly goes beyond tolerance by investigating the beauty and [...]
Newsmagazine Focus writes about Swedish tolerance
Weekly Swedish news magazine Fokus recently published an interesting article about the ongoing Swedish debate concerning tolerance and multiculturalism, ”The Tolerance Trap” (Toleransfällan), by Fredrik Borneskans. Read the article. The article’s perspective is that the concept of tolerance is often misinterpreted as a ”naive acceptance”. The author suggests that a better understanding of tolerance should [...]
