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Sensitizing children to the social and emotional mechanisms involved in racism : a program evaluation
This paper describes and discusses the results of an intervention aiming to sensitize
children to the social and emotional processes involved in racism. The intervention was
applied and evaluated in 10 Greek elementary schools. The goals and the intervention
methods of the program modules are briefly outlined and the results of the program
evaluation are elaborated and discussed. Two-hundred students participated in the
program and 180 took part in the pre-and-post-testing which assessed their ability to
identify emotions associated with prejudice, discrimination and stereotypical thinking; to
understand similarities and differences between people; and to develop perspective
taking and empathic skills in relation to diverse others. Results indicate gains in all three
areas of assessment although the increased ability to identify similarities between people
can also be attributed to age/grade effects. The implications of the findings are discussed
with regard to antiracism intervention methods and evaluation strategies.peer-reviewe