About The Course

Location

Integrating Minorities, Migrants and Refugees is a course that gives participants the opportunity to discuss the role of education in the overall effort to integrate refugees and migrants into European schools and societies. The course is required for everyone involved in education, including school principals and principals, formal and non-formal educators, trainers, government officials responsible for education policy, community leaders, social workers, and staff from NGOs and civil society organizations.

This period of all-encompassing refugee crisis raises many pressing issues that need to be addressed at different levels within the EU. And it is clear that one of the biggest challenges in the coming years will be how the EU integrates the men, women, and children who will remain in Europe after the crisis ends, which will be a real long-term test for EU policymakers and the EU community as a whole. Although there are many academic and political prescriptions for the integration of refugees and migrants in Europe, this very fact shows that there are no absolute answers to this challenge that the EU will face in the future.

Target

Learning outcome

By the end of the course, students will have acquired capabilities to:

• Deal with cultural differences inside the classroom and make the most out of cultural diversity
• Embrace cultural diversity and best practices for integration
• Develop and implement desegregation policies
• Understand the importance of national language acquisition for integration of minority groups and migrants
• Implement best diversity policies and take affirmative actions

Programme

Day 1

• Refugee and inmigration policy in Italy and the EU
• Historical context for the refugee crisis
• Refugee and Immigrant data in Italy
• Debunking fake news and propaganda

Day 2

• Psychological and Mental Health first aid training ( theory, practice and activities/role play ).

Day 3

• Culture Shock, Migratory Grief, trauma and resilience in Refugee and forcely displaced population through real immigrant’s experience, artworks, theory and art therapy activities.
• Freisy Gonzalez’ Migration experience through her photography and poetry artwork ( via zoom)
• Culture Shock.
• Celia Jaes Falicov’s perspective; Migratory Grief
• Achotegui’s perspective; Ulysses Syndrome
• Perspectives on Trauma and Migration/displacement
• Papadopoulos perspective on Adversity Activated Development
• Psychoanalytic perspectives.
• The Scientific Advisory Council of the Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, perspective

Day 4

• Cross cultural relationships with children, adolescents, parents, schools and immigrant/ forcely displaced populations by art therapy project and theory.
• Cultural borderlands
• Establishing safe spaces
• The Challenge of School and Work
• Family Life Cycle:
• Raising Children in Culture and Context
• Adolescents and Parents crossing cultural borders.
• Participatory Action Research and community

FREE AFTERNOON CULTURAL VISIT

CERTIFICATE: Certificate of attendance, including a description of the course content; Europass certificates on request.

PRICE: 480 euros

SCHEDULE

classes can take place in the Morning (9:00 – 13:00) or afternoon (15.00 – 19.00).

COURSE PROGRAM AND VENUE

The definite schedule will be sent to the participants approximately 3 weeks before the course.

Any changes to the course are at the instructor’s discretion.

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