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Intergration Learning Exchange

Education at Play: EQUITAS

To live inside an inclusive community means removing the concept of the “other”  and re-framing how people think. When commonalities outweigh difference, it’s easier to get on with the game, whether you are in the playground or sitting in a corporate board room.

 Cultivating empathy and a sense of fair play in children reduces social intolerance, bullying and other forms of discrimination and helps take the “other” out of the equation. Working in conjunction with the city of Montreal, the NGO Equitas, has developed an educational toolkit that uses games to teach children to focus on their commonalities and not their differences.

Games, the ordinary tools of childhood.

The Play It Fair! Program is designed for children and youth between the ages of 6-12 and is being used at summer day camps and after school activities. Part of its success comes from using children’s innate and common interest in what is “fair” in games to prompt the development of this same attitude in all aspects of their lives.

Related Good Idea:

• Berlin: Dolls and Diversity: Fighting Prejudice with Empathy
• Munich: Buntkicktgut! Integration Through Sports