Migration events in Europe and oral history in education

The VOICES project (Voices of Immigrants Creating Empathy & Social Cohesion) develops methods and materials that integrate migration experiences and the perspectives of migrants into language learning and basic education courses. The aim is to create a learner-centered and participatory approach that focuses on oral history-based methods, digital tools, and interactive methods. By addressing topics closely tied to the learners’ lived realities, the project aims to strengthen their intrinsic motivation and, above all, ensure that their voices—both those of the interviewees and the learners conducting the interviews—are heard. By focusing on the perspectives of migrants, the project promotes intercultural understanding and seeks to break down stereotypes. It stimulates dialogue between different generations and communities through the shared experience of migration. The “Counter-Archive” resulting from the interviews aims to place migration in a different context, focusing on a personal and emotional perspective.

To establish a common foundation for further work on the project, this report presents the results of preliminary desk research. The joint definition of oral history agreed upon by all partners for the project serves as the conceptual basis; subsequently, migration-related events relevant to the partner countries were researched. Last but not least, best-practice examples of working with oral history in an educational context were collected, and the aspects relevant to VOICES were identified. This report is intended to provide relevant insights and findings for the development of the workshop methodology and to serve as a foundation for further work.

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