Classified "A" by ANVUR in the fields 11/D1, 11/D2 Scientific in the field 14.
Abstract
The fear of the Other and the hate speech are phenomena increasingly and socially widespread: this makes necessary an educational response to promote intercultural competences. The school could become a place to promote non-discriminatory practices and to reduce prejudice, which is usually about minority groups (as migrants), raising awareness among students to migration and deconstructing stereotypes. According to literature, the present educational project uses strategies regarded as the most effective (as contact, empathy and perspective taking), through the migrants’ drawings collected by the artist Bryan McCormack for the international project Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow. The lessons plan is structured in 8 lessons, involving pupils (9 or 10 aged) in three primary schools. Using drawings by children migrants was useful to create a contrasting effect between their own experiences and refugees’ ones, in order to stimulate a deep emotional understanding of the migration experience.
