4.4 The teacher’s role

My advice to a teacher or youth leader would be let the young people lead the process and support their ideas. It's just like facilitating and leaving the room for the students to discuss and get to the points they want to get. Also, I would tell them to think about how it relates to their normal life, the life in the neighborhood, the knowledge they have previously about the world or the history of their families.

This group of Granada is a group of quite young people from 12 to 15-years-old. And not all of them, but the majority of them are Muslims for different backgrounds. The group picked up the idea of tolerance and acceptance of the other in the past in the present in Spain.

There are many evidence of this coexistence and many cities. In Granada, we are very lucky because it's very obvious when you go into the streets. Eight centuries of Islamic presence. People were born there and lived there are Muslims. The young people in Granada, they find quite original ways. They can even relate the idea of water with tolerance. Asking themselves what's the relation between water and tolerance. So one of them thought, they answered and said, OK, the man that deliver water in the past, they have to give water to everybody, regardless of religion.

I will advise the teachers and youth leaders to think about different skills that they will really need. Not only knowledge, but also technical skills and human support.

Also, you need to find that support by people that can go with the groups and to street. Many different roles that we can play in order to make this thing happen.