BACKPACK ID

Bridging languages and memories to foster multiple identities: "Never leave your backpack behind!"

About the project

BACKPACK ID is an innovative intervention for promoting the inclusion of refugee children at school in 4 European countries (Greece and Italy, Germany and Sweden), which are met with acute and very diverse challenges by the ongoing refugee crisis. Informed by these differences, the present approach on social inclusion advances a common account of social inclusion challenges; it sees the social inclusion of refugee children as a function of addressing the needs and perspectives of those children and their families, and local communities and stakeholders, while affirming common European values.

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Outputs

Backpack ID using a bottom-up participatory method produced the following outputs in order to address social inclusion interpersonal and intergroup understanding in the school environment.

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Contact

The project is now closed. If you would like to request additional information about the project, you can contact the project coordinator here.

The project is based on prior literature, knowledge, experience, relevant research, and official reports on Education, Psychology, and Linguistics. It employs a mixed models design using multiple ways that form a diversity of perspectives within the context of implementation research. The analyses and interpretation are continual and influence stages in the research and intervention process. The project consortium plans to implement a series of overlapping triangulation checks incorporating research and analysis of the state of the art methodology for self and project assessment, through coordination and research meetings by monitoring, analysing, evaluating, and modifying the management of the implementation regarding its functional steps and refinement of the intellectual outputs and the overall evaluation of the project.

By applying this model, which also incorporates the methodology of action research that builds up a bottom-up participatory construction of the emerged educational needs and proposals regarding social inclusion, interpersonal and intergroup understanding, especially focusing on the involvement of families in the learning process, the project’s mixed models methodology specifically aims to address the questions regarding social inclusion and multiple identities that the project explores and implement innovative ways for supporting the participatory action of story-telling and collecting memories from the part of the students.

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