This project looks at the language used in media coverage of refugees, and aims to increase understanding and awareness of this issue, both through education and the creation of posters

For all of these activities, the intended audience is students. However, they could be used with younger schoolchildren with age appropriate materials. These activity ideas could also be used for any topic in the media, not just refugees. The main aims of all of these ideas is not to change people's views; rather to increase awareness and understanding of how language in the media is used carefully in order to convey an idea to the readers/viewers of that media source. comprehension questions

perhaps the most traditional exercise with a newspaper text. Students are given an article, and asked to answer some questions about it. This could lead into a discussion of the main ideas.

comparing headlines and stories

to focus on the filtering of information by different media types. Students are given different headlines for the same story, or different versions of the same story, and have to work out why these headlines and stories are different. They could also be asked to work out the common features of the stories, and so which parts are the most likely to be true. This could also be done in a multilingual class with students bringing in headlines or stories from their own native languages for comparison.

correcting headlines

especially using more sensationalist headlines, like in tabloid papers. Students would be asked to read a headline and imagine what the story will say. They would then be given the real article to read, and

then come up with a more accurate, less sensational or exaggerated headline.

making statistics

in order to show the language and specific words used in the media. The class would be given a series of different articles from different sources, and would have to pick out descriptors, eg for immigrants. Once the class has their own statistics fo r how refugees are described in the media, they could compare them to statistics produced by official channels, such as Ipsos MORI, a research company in the UK.

Team

Basia Krajewska (PJAIT)

Katriona Armstrong (UWS)

Supervisors

The only one inscription which says ‚world’ contains a fading letter ‚l’. „

World’ without an „l” is just „word”.

Metaphorically it means how a small thing, a detail might challenge the bigger picture, change it’s meaning and perception of it. Besides that, the message behind it is that words kind of create the framework of our world, because words are those that describe it.

The project is based on the research of immigrants on the labour market in Greece. Its purpose is to go deeper to the topic and try to understand the current situation. We would like to highlight the importance of the long term prediction. It should be applied to the labour market in Greece. It is crucial to be aware of the fact that Europe can not stand without inux of the immigrant workforce. Our target group are local people and foreigners. Τhe idea is to organize the workshop for everyone who is interested in developing the long term planning skills.

The long term prediction

in terms of labour market

issue is crucial.

RESEARCH METHODS USED:

• Meetings

• Interviews

• Study visits

• NGOs statistics

• Case studies

• Observation

• Close reading

• Comparative analysis

• Historical perspective

Having as a baseline the idea of collecting testimonies, the main purpose is to give an opportunity of sharing personal experiences concerning integration, to those who want to and who wish for any improvement on it. Our target group was migrants and refugges of all ages, but we decided to put more emphasis on the teenagers and to add the locals as a category as well. Our idea is to collect testimo-nies, to compare, study them and share them,in order to make visible the unvisible points like common and different phenomenons.

These projects aims in using

written and verbal stories as a

tool for dissemination of actual

integration experiences and for educational purposes (academic and non-academic)

We planned and went on a 'walk' through Athens to see if the outcome was in line with our thinking and the theory we had read. The outcome was very interesting and confirmed to us that we were on the right track with our project. We both come from different backgrounds (one a native Athenian and the other a first time visitor from the UK) so our experience of 'the walk' was already hugely different. What was new and exciting to the visitor was barely noticed by the native, and what was considered highly important to the native was not always understood by the visitor. We found that we made use of all of our senses during 'the walk'. Smells, sounds and sights were recorded in notes and photographs, which were then shared upon our return to the Lab. We also discussed the possibility of stop-ping to sketch along the route, but were limited by time on the day.

When we discussed our individual experiences of 'the walk' together, it was amazing just how differently we saw the exact same places. The visitor had noticed the smell of meat in the air on a busy

shopping street, where as the native had been more focused on the amount of traffic in the area.

After our discussion, we brainstormed a list of 'factors' that could affect a persons experience of a place, they included; age, gender, religion, height, weight, medical condition, cultural background, languages spoken, place of birth, culture, education level, social status, reason for being in a particular place, and economic status. It would be an interesting exercise to think about how these factors could affect a person doing the same walk through Athens.