Learning Intercultural Storytelling
Start date: Dec 1, 2016,
End date: Nov 30, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
Disadvantaged groups like refugees or people with migration background have fewer opportunities to articulate themselves and have only little chance in being heard or listened in the new society where they live. Nowadays, integration of this group in the hosting communities is a continuous growing issue whichis receiving the specific attention for involving refugees in every aspect.The general aim of LISTEN is to use the storytelling approach in a radio environment as a mean of communication and a way of integrating refugees in the community. Storytelling will help refugees by empowering them, facilitating communication and inspiring their personal growth. Telling their own story in a secure environment will reassure them the values as a person, widden the chances of meeting new people and being offered work opportunities. This approach will affect also the audience, the hosting society. In this way the listener will be active in the equal level as the storyteller, will be involved in their personal life story and raise the comprehensive behaviour.The project will start with a research in order to get a clear picture of the storytelling methods mostly applied and main actors involved. This will serve to the further development of each step of the project and its respective IO-s.The core of the project are the training modules and the validation system. In this context of activities, the first step will be the development of the storytelling training curricula and modules which will be further developed by each partner due to their expertise. Then a validation system will be designed, to recognize and certificate the storytelling competences developed by the trainers and multipliers. For this purpose, the LEVEL5 validation system will have to be further developed and customised to the specific needs of the project. LISTEN seeks to apply LEVEL5 at two levels for a better coverage and competences cvalidation: first with the participants in the European training course that will then carry out learning projects with refugees and second with the refuges that will take part in the storytelling projects. Once the first draft products (training modules and validation system) have been developed, they will be tested during a well structured piloting phase. The piloting phase will be preceded by a five-day European training course (C1) for trainers and multipliers, to get to know the LISTEN concept and to learn how to apply it in real training contexts with refugees. At least 2-3 educational professionals will be trained per partner along the LISTEN concept.After the course, the LISTEN training modules will be piloted by the participants of the European course in learning projects with refugees. This learning projects will involve 15-20 refugees per country. At the end of this process, an experience report and guidelines will be developed and published in the project website. The experience report will be based on the national experience reports that will be provided by each partner. National reports will be based on at least 2-3 learning projects that are carried out by the course participants locally in their working environment. An award will be given to all refugees who showed best the storytelling skills gained through the learning projects. In this framework, a Collection of Refugees Life Stories will be created and will contain the stories of the award winners. The Collection will be in audio book and will be available in the LISTEN web portal. Finally, the LISTEN label will be developed, as a tangible sign to recognize and reward the efforts made by the radios in empowering refugees through embedding the LISTEN concept into their programms.
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