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Contribution
The Eurokid project has had several 'airings' at ECER (a workshop at Lille and a symposium and workshop at Lisbon). The project will be completed by September 2003 and since the key product is a group of web sites, a poster presentation of their key features would be an appropriate final dissemination and information-giving strategy. Being graphic-intensive, with artwork intended to be attractive and engaging to users between 10 and 14 years old, the web sites lend themselves well to this kind of presentation. However, the posters will not simply present pages from the sites, they will seek to explain the four principal motivations driving the project. Firstly the increase in migration and the global movement of diverse peoples and the concomitant political and educational importance of issues of European and global citizenship, 'race', belonging and national identity. Secondly, how to make these issues intelligible to young people in ways that combine critical engagement with accessibility. (The web sites have been developed to be particularly useful to young people between the ages referred to above, and are intended to be clearly understandable by young people with little contact experience of 'racial', ethnic or cultural diversity.) Thirdly, how to produce such materials in a format that teachers will trust and use. Finally, how to give such materials a credible research base. The poster display will illustrate the sites themselves, drawing attention to key aspects and dilemmas in their development. In the display notice will be drawn to the research base of each site; to decisions made about representation; to features of design, structure and navigation; to pedagogical strategies, to suggestions for teachers, and to the team's thinking about 'othering' and inclusion. The sometimes differing solutions to these problems adopted in the three countries involved will be drawn attention to in the posters. Attention will also be drawn to the technique of using narrative and 'fictionalised' dialogue, arguing for some pedagogical and rhetorical advantages of this approach. The display will thus provide a descriptive overview and summary of the web sites themselves, with some insights into the dilemmas in their production and the chosen resolutions of these dilemmas.
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