Abstract:

The project “EDUCATIONAL INCLUSION INTO DIVERSITY, FACING SCHOOL LEAVING: INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGIES TO SUPPORT ETHNIC MINORITY STUDENTS AND STOP HATE SPEECH IN EUROPE” comes from the growth of hate speech across Europe, which in addition to being a great risk for European social cohesion and for the social inclusion of vulnerable groups, also translates into greater discrimination and bullying in classrooms throughout Europe.

Thus, improving the inclusion and educational results of these vulnerable groups and those susceptible to hate speech involves, among other measures, ending the harassment to which they are subject, which usually leads to school absenteeism, discouragement, and finally leaving. This harassment is often not perceived by teachers, who have not received specific training to tackle it and effectively promote the inclusion of discriminated groups of students from a global and gender perspective, taking into account the reality of each group.

To this end, a series of innovative results have been created, which will provide secondary school teachers with all the necessary tools to detect hate speech and harassment in their classrooms, work on them with their students, and generate processes of inclusion among them through collaborative work. All of these results are digital resources compatible with lessons in the classroom and also distance education.

Two high-quality results stand out:
- OERs: KITS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION: a toolkit where teachers will find the most appropriate educational resources to deal with radicalization and the emergence of violent or segregating attitudes through didactic units, training posters, videos of both experts and victims, activities for the classroom, surveys with recommendations for teachers adapted to each type of hate speech, etc.
- The VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DETECTION OF HARASSMENT AND HATE SPEECH IN THE CLASSROOM: by using subtle and anonymous surveys filled by the students via their smartphone and/or PC, this virtual environment not only allows to detect harassment and hate speech in whatever form they take, but also leads them to the educational contents in the Kits Against Discrimination that will help prevent them. The environment also has integrated bots that automatically identify types of hate speech used by the students in the event that they use any discriminatory word or comment.

In this communication, we introduce the different results of the project, both the contents and educational materials in the Kits Against Discrimination and the virtual environment to detect harassment and hate speech in the classroom.

Acknowledgements:
This work has been funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme within the 2020-1-ES01-KA201-082235 project; Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE).

Keywords:

Educational inclusion, diversity, ethnic minority.