Through stories, picturebooks and arts-based practices, this project started building a network – a network to support communities in contexts of flux, to link and strengthen connections between communities and practitioners, and to establish new connections with people who share our values and want to engage in similar activities.

It started with the simple gesture of placing a picturebook into children's hands in communities that have experienced vulnerability in its many forms (migration, displacement, poverty). Together with these communities, researchers explored the power of picturebooks and storytelling. 

The project has scoped unique creative practices and identified successful strategies of using children’s literature and arts-based activities. It gathers resources, examples of activities, and stories from the contexts in both countries. 

Researchers have provided training and developed materials, as well as arts-based methods to record the impact of using children’s literature with displaced children.

The Children's literature in critical contexts of displacement website documents some of this work, including a Toolkit for mediators to used in these contexts which include step by step activities, including safeguarding.  

Find out more and see the video on the School of Education website

 

First published: 2 February 2022

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