C 347/22
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
9.9.2022
Tuesday 8 March 2022
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Underlines the fact that particular elements of European history, including colonialism, slavery and genocide, in particular the Holocaust, together with other manifestations of racism, continue to have a lasting impact on today’s society, including in education systems and the development of educational curricula; suggests that educational curricula be revised to explain the history of our societies through a focused and contextualised approach in order to better understand its links with the present and work to eradicate the stereotypes that are leading to the discrimination witnessed today; 28.
Stresses the need to set aside greater space in history curricula to objective and factual learning about different racial or ethnic ideologies, their forms and their origins, including slavery, colonialism and fascism and the misuse of science for the justification thereof, as well as their consequences and possible remnants in present times; 29.
Encourages the Member States to foster the development of diverse and inclusive educational curricula and educational tools or activities to ensure that authors, historians, scientists, artists and other figures from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds are included in these and other key materials; 30.
Emphasises the role of education in promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination; underlines the importance of forging synergies between citizenship education across Europe and EU policies to fight racism and discrimination; encourages the Member States to attach greater emphasis to education about the history of the EU in order to foster cohesion; believes that these areas should be integral parts of citizenship education curricula; 31.
Calls on the Member States to promote the languages, culture and history of minorities in school curricula, museums and other forms of cultural and historical expression, and to recognise the contribution of their culture to European heritage; calls on the Member States to develop coherent and consistent measures, backed by appropriate funding, to stimulate, support and promote the arts and culture of racialised and ethnic groups and to research and preserve the material and intangible heritage of the culture of traditional communities; 32.
Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote multilingualism as an important tool that brings people together; 33.
Underlines the importance of providing proper support for the children of mobile workers across the Member States to allow them to learn their native language and learn about the culture of their own country and new country of residence in order to ensure better integration; 34.
Calls for a deepening in the study of common humanities, history, philosophy, languages and literature, which may help to promote the spirit of European concord; calls for history curricula to employ a focused approach to the history of racial and ethnic communities living in Europe in order to encourage a broader and more factual perspective on European and world history and forge a better understanding of the interactions between different continents before, during and after European colonisation; calls for history books to emphasise the contributions made by racialised communities to the development and shaping of Europe today; 35.
Calls on the Member States to actively combat bias in school books, in educational tools, in films and news programmes for children and young people, and in sport; calls on the Member States to include these targets in the implementation of the European Year of Youth 2022; 36.
Strongly condemns the practice of racial and ethnic segregation in schools, which is still present in Europe; warns that such practices lead to marginalisation, early dropouts, low enrolment rates and the creation of parallel social spaces, perpetuate structural discrimination and hamper equal access to quality of life; calls on all Member States to introduce or strengthen inclusive policies to prevent marginalised groups of learners from pre-school to higher education from being placed in separate schools, educational institutions or classes, whether intentionally or not, to promote social inclusion with the guarantee of equal opportunities for all, and to ensure that all children enjoy equal access to quality education and extracurricular activities including culture and sport; encourages the Member States to actively promote the inclusion of children from minority groups in schools and local communities and to safeguard the secular nature of public education, while respecting cultural and religious identities; 37.
Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take steps to support children from racial and ethnic minorities and precarious socioeconomic backgrounds on their pathways to excellence by helping them get involved in extracurricular activities (e.g. arts and sport) at a high level, enabling them to get into schools that meet their particular needs, providing good-quality education opportunities, and making the necessary funding available;