MIN offers workshops to schools and community groups on the theme of migration.
These tools and activities help pupils, educators, and the general public to understand this complex theme by exploring the causes, challenges, and consequences of it.
Why is this important? Education outreach is vital because it promotes understanding, critical thinking, and social integration in schools and communities.
What approaches are used? MIN’s Education Outreach workshops encourage critical thinking, enabling participants to:
- Recognise misinformation
- Understand complex issues
- Develop constructive dialogue.
Education outreach is crucial for a number of reasons including:
- Promoting a better understanding of the complex theme of migration in relation to human rights
- Supporting inclusion and peer understanding
- Encouraging the values of tolerance, respect, healthy relationships, diversity, and citizenship
- Implementing a preventive approach by combating xenophobic attitudes.
Education Outreach workshops explore the full narrative of the migrant experience, from initial identity to new beginnings.
The three themes are structured to follow this journey: Home, Leaving Home, and Starting a New Life.
Further resources: ‘The Sea of Paperwork’ is a book developed through powerful participatory workshops. Young people collaborated to share their personal feelings and experiences of migration, asylum, and integration through compelling storytelling and visual arts. If you would like to access copies of ‘The Sea of Paperwork’ please contact the MIN office, or visit the Migration Education Resources website for further information and teaching resources.
If you are interested to find out more about MIN’s Education Outreach contact:
Abeer Abdelatti, Education Outreach Officer
abeer@maryhillintegration.org.uk / 0141 946 9106
