INNOVATION
The creation of flexible education material which are based on the testimonies of fieldwork informants and research audiovisual material makes our project highly innovative. This material will amount to an extended database that will address both the experience of displacement and the educational challenges faced in the field of MRM education and a toolkit of recommendations that tackle the lack of sensitization and methodologies to teach with/about student diversity.
Therefore, the innovation of the proposal lies in the following premises:
- it views digital education as an integrated social process and not a technologically-driven data-based process;
- it offers a methodology that ties education to ethnology and digitality, which questions the very concept of western education as reliant upon book-cultures, promoting affective mobilization and acknowledging multiliteracies;
- it creates a repository of interconnected instructional material that originate from the voices of specific individuals as collected in ethnographic research;
- it offers an expanded perspective on education as applied anthropology, by offering an ethnographically-based, multimodally handled set of materials as the basis for understanding, and responding to, sociocultural diversity;
- it refers to an under researched and underrepresented geographical area, and it addresses its needs for digital capacity building;
- it will create an electronic inventory and a concise toolkit of experimental methodologies and good practices appropriate for minority, migrant and refugee classrooms (both within the repository and the e-book that will result from the project)
- the structure of the repository coincides with the recent perspectives of online education for small “bite-sized” nodes of information which have the potential to result to modular courses that satisfy the needs of a wide range of users and defy the logic of pre-structured rigid lessons in secondary and higher education.
SUSTAINABILITY
Ensuring the sustainability of the project is a crucial aspect of its success. The project aims to contribute to the development of the involved organizations in the long-term through strengthening the capacity of the participating organizations in project management, civic engagement, and digital tools. The knowledge and skills gained through the project will be transferable to other projects and activities, and will contribute to the organizations’ long-term development. Additionally, the project aims to establish and strengthen partnerships between the participating organizations, which will provide opportunities for future collaborations and joint initiatives, contributing to the sustainability of the project’s outcomes. Furthermore, the project will develop various outputs, such as the repository, digital tools, and an e-book on innovative methodologies and good practices. These outputs will be made available to the public and the relevant stakeholders, contributing to the dissemination of the project results and the sustainability of its outcomes. Finally, the project will explore the potential for follow-up activities, such as training sessions or joint initiatives, to further build on the project’s achievements and continue the collaboration between the partners. The partners will discuss and agree on the follow-up activities during the project’s implementation, ensuring their feasibility and long-term impact.