<strong>Prevention and Reduction of Violence at Schools</strong> is a three-year project implemented by <strong>TPO Foundation</strong> in cooperation <strong>Pedagogical Institute of Tuzla Canton</strong> and <strong>Ministry of Education, Science and Sport of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton</strong>. The action plan and pedagogical-preventive measures against violence at schools were set up after the process of strategical planning. The first activities within this project are media pedagogy workshops whose aim is to encourage teachers for using audio-visual materials and their individual creating. The second set of media pedagogy workshops was organised in <strong>Mostar</strong> on <strong>November 03 and 07, 2016</strong> in cooperation with <strong>Centre for Cultural and Media Decontamination</strong>.
<img src=’http://etos.ba/etoscms/tinymce/plugins/image/uploads/IMG_7574_1.JPG’ alt=” width=’740′ height=’555′ />The second set of media pedagogy workshops was held on November 03 and 07, 2016. The goal of the abovementioned workshops is to introduce teachers to the basics of film and video narration, mastering of basic techniques of use when it comes to audio and video technologies needed for filming short films and videos, film genres such as short documentaries and short videos, so-called ‘social spot’, knowing open source programmes intended for montage as well as basics of framing and montage.
<img src=’http://etos.ba/etoscms/tinymce/plugins/image/uploads/IMG_7581_1.JPG’ alt=” width=’740′ height=’555′ /> The main idea of these workshops is not only familiarising of teachers with available video and audio technology in education but also to create conditions and sources of information that will be used in pedagogical work with the present and future generations of students after this very project.
<img src=’http://etos.ba/etoscms/tinymce/plugins/image/uploads/IMG_7582_1.JPG’ alt=” width=’740′ height=’555′ />These workshops are an overture to the three year-project whose goal is prevention and reduction of violence at schools as well as a way of thinking about this deeply rooted issue in our society.
Films made on these workshops will be used during the international campaign ’16 Days of Activism against Gender based Violence’ as well as for the future ventures when it comes to violence at schools and society in general.
