Education & Equity

Expert, Columnist

1,5 hour

NL, EN

Diversity / Inclusion,
Behavior change,
Pedagogy,
Cultural differences

Connect,
Inspire,
Motivate

Opportunity equality in education can only be achieved with perseverance and guts. Guts to think outside the box and guts to dare to make a difference. Sofie takes you into this complex world, not just by naming problems, but by sharing solutions. Hands on and with great humor she takes you through the theoretical backgrounds but especially through the unruly practice of Equal Opportunities, because we only get them through unequal treatment!

As project leader, Sofie van de Waart set up Explora Breda, a project in which students from Breda North and Breda South with totally different backgrounds met in a class for the gifted. She likes to share the lessons she has learned in the field of equal opportunities and cultural diversity, using her knowledge and experience from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science's Equal Opportunities Alliance. As part of the Expert Team, she has visited and interviewed schools throughout the country that are working on this theme and also spoken at several grammar schools on the topic of diversity at the grammar school.

She supports her lecture with practical examples through film clips from the documentary "Utopia of Sophie," which provides food for thought. An inspiring, sometimes moving and confronting lecture.

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