Boutsia, Aikaterini;
(2023)
Educational Responses to Hate Speech towards Refugees in a School Context in Greece.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This research aims to explore the issue of Hate Speech within the school context in Greece and suggest teaching practices for tackling it. An initial study I conducted in December 2015 in Athens showed that teachers in Greece were not familiar with the issue of hateful rhetoric, neither was there a systematic educational approach to respond to this phenomenon. Therefore, action research was designed to develop successful teaching practices that help raise awareness about hate speech. The intervention took place in 2017 in two primary schools near Athens involving forty 11-year-old students. It consisted of experiential workshops based on the framework of the Council of Europe regarding Hate Speech, principles of human rights education and non-formal education methodology. Students explored misconceptions and stereotypes against refugees, working at the same time on the notion of hate speech itself. Relevant educational materials were also used and tested in practice with students. Inspired by Contact Theory, the workshops were followed by a joint activity between local school students and refugee children from a neighbouring school. Prior to the action research, two group interviews were conducted with refugees to understand and explore issues that they face in their everyday lives in Greece. An ultimate goal of this research was to identify and suggest successful methods and resources that the educational community in Greece could use when needed to tackle hate speech. The findings of this research show that successful teaching practices are those involving students mentally as well as physically, such as role-plays and games. Activities involving story-telling or narration of real stories of refugees also had great impact on students and helped the development of empathy towards refugees. Finally, the opportunity to communicate with refugee students from a neighbouring school enabled local students to develop a positive attitude towards their peer refugees.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Educational Responses to Hate Speech towards Refugees in a School Context in Greece |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178462 |
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