Teaching Immigration in European Schools

The project starts with a series of interviews and focus group discussions with teachers and school interventions to collect experiences and best practices on how to mobilise existing academic research as well as pedagogic methods to teach migration in diverse classrooms. Topics to be discussed include educators’ and students’ educational needs and wishes, experiences in teaching migration, challenges encountered by educators when teaching in ethnically and socially diverse classes, insights into successful pedagogic methods to teach societal and political issues at schools, experiences in using storytelling as a potential strategy to foster a deeper understanding of migration, and suggestions for how to structure and design the teaching modules.

After this first assessment, the team members will draft the best practice infosheet and develop the ten teaching modules based on existing research and data and test them in a school setting. A second set of focus group discussions will evaluate the infosheet, the topics of the learning modules and the teaching modules, which will then be reviewed before going online on the project's website. The remaining time resources will focus on outreach and media work.