| Title: |
Welcome to Belgium” Pedagogical kits |
| Good Practice Mission: |
Support newly arrived migrants and people with low literacy residing in Belgium, with visual material that allow for more inclusive understanding of different things, independently of the cultural references of each person. |
| Specific goals of the GP: |
- Help
discover the new place of life.
- Encourage or develop critical
analysis skills.
- Active and emancipated participation in all aspects of
the society.
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| Year: |
2018 |
| Duration of the implementation: |
5 to 8 weeks |
| Target group: |
Learners over 15 years old |
| Summary: |
These kits give migrants a broad
overview of social, cultural and environmental
aspects of life in their new host country, thus giving them capabilities
to integrate into their new setting more quickly. These pedagogical kits can also be used to teach basic skills to a native Belgian audience
(including young people) or used as part of a
broader reflection on society. Using
photos instead of other types of pictures to work on life skills and social issues with people lacking basic
literacy skills decreases the impact
of a specific culture, whereas the interpretation of photos are less dependent on the culture of the participants and
enable people to communicate more easily in spite of cultural differences.
The process includes:
- Choosing the kit that responds better
to the needs of the session you are carrying out and print or digitally provide the materials to the learners.
- The process
is entirely up to the educator, however
the developers of these kits follow the approach of Popular Education.
The requirements for the transferability of the practice
are:
- For
French speaking audiences, the transferability aspect
is straight forward.
- For non French-speaking audiences, it would
require adaptation of the kits,
however this is a
simple (yet a bit time consuming process).
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| Space requisites: |
The kits can be downloaded from anyone interested and
integrated in any form of instruction they choose. The only limitation is that the current material
is in French, so it would require translation to be
shared in other languages.
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| Obstacles revealed?: |
There are no such documents. The proposed practice was
developed to address specific needs but in no way does it claim to solve all potential learning challenges.
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| Methodology used: |
Group/collaborative learning
Individual learning
Inquiry-based learning
Game-based learning
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| Resources needed: |
Printed or digitally adapted versions of the 9 kits, everything else is up to the educator.
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| Link: |
All in French - 9 educational kits |
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