Teenagers` Perception about Discrimination

Luminița Mihaela Drăghicescu (), Ioana Stăncescu () and Ana-Maria Sudu ()
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Luminița Mihaela Drăghicescu: Associate professor PhD., Valahia University Targoviste, Targoviste, Romania
Ioana Stăncescu: Lecturer PhD., Valahia University Targoviste, Targoviste, Romania
Ana-Maria Sudu: Associate professor PhD., Valahia University Targoviste
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Logos Universalitate Mentalitate Educatie Noutate - Sectiunea Stiinte Politice si Studii Europene/ Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty - Section: Political Sciences and European Studies, 2020, vol. 6, issue 2, 17-31

Abstract: Adolescence is the age of impetuous transformations, but also the age of crises accompanied by anxiety, insecurity, depression. When discrimination - a phenomenon that has certainly affected the lives of each of us - is added to them, the "route" of teenagers to the crystallization of self-identity becomes even more difficult. Awareness of discrimination and taking on the mission to prevent/combat it, by cultivating values and attitudes such as respect for diversity, equity, tolerance, solidarity, cooperation become, in this way, objectives of the school, achievable in the context of social education. Going in this direction, the RAINBOW project aims to promote social inclusion and positive EU values through capitalizing of non-formal education and its specific methods into the school education. Within this project, a research was carried out with a target group consisted of 1487 students and 254 secondary school teachers from six European countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Italy, Romania and Spain. From Romania, a group of 37 teachers and 267 students was part of this approach. The research method used was the survey based on questionnaire, and regarding the target group of teenagers students, the objectives included identifying their perception of discrimination, awareness of negative effects of social media, but also the importance of civic competences development. Referring to the need for a proper understanding of the phenomenon of discrimination, in this study we integrated some of the results of research conducted within the Rainbow Project, presenting some important data on teenagers' perceptions and experience on discrimination.

Keywords: adolescence; discrimination; students' perception; social education; RAIN.BOW Project (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N1 O1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.18662/lumenpses/6.2/20

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