Regarding its origin
You've just picked up your child, you're perhaps on your way to the playground, when suddenly your child starts humming. Heartily and completely innocently, they're singing along to the songs they learned at daycare and/or school. Songs that you might have sung yourself as a child.
But now you have an educational responsibility and are astonished, perhaps also sad, angry, triggered by the discriminatory words that are pouring out of your child's lips.
You quickly realize that there's a greater power at play, and you can't simply banish these songs from your child's environment. So you start by just changing the lyrics a little...
We had a similar experience. Knowing that we couldn't achieve much on our own, we turned it into a project.
In the project "Who the heck is Columbus?", we reworked five children's songs from a critical perspective on colonialism and retold the stories. The participating children sang them with the support of parents, educators, artists, and interns, using beats they had created themselves, and even filmed three of the songs together.
The videos
Interactive learning games
We have also created interactive learning games for you, so that children, parents and adults with an educational mission can delve deeper into the topics and acquire more knowledge.
The learning fields in the GNG Homeschool You can find more information, including song lyrics, a coloring page, a memory game, etc., here:
For the very young
Prepared for children from about 4 years old.
Primary school students
Prepared for children from about 6 years old, you can also use the learning modules for teaching purposes.
For young people
These learning areas are suitable from the age of 12.
Adult education
We have also gathered information for parents and other people with an educational mandate and prepared it in the form of interactive learning modules.
Impressions from the studios
„Who the heck is Columbus?“, a project of Global New Generation Berlin eV in cooperation with New Globe GmbH and AB Production. With the kind support of: Bread for the World, Berliner Sparkasse Foundation, Heidehof Foundation, Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises. The funded institution is solely responsible for the content of the publications.
