CHICAM

Visions across cultures:
migrant children using visual images to communicate

Policy Recommendations

With increasing media production taking place outside formal institutions there is an urgent need for local, national and European media dissemination platforms on which refugee and migrant children can present their media productions and receive feedback from peers. These need to cater both for their national, ethnic and /or religious differences; to serve as a forum for cross cultural expression; and to provide a means of expressing and demonstrating their desire for inclusion in their new communities as well as questioning some of their experiences of exclusion. This is an area in which the European Commission could take a lead.

Media education experts and others concerned with media literacy should be enabled to form a European network to support the creative promotion of media literacy. This should consider:

Ways of developing teachers’ awareness of different cultural forms and genres
Teacher training in the structuring and organisation of the uses of technology
Access to technology as part of structured media literacy programmes
Specialist media work to promote social inclusion that has as its starting point the motivations of children and their diverse media experiences and uses rather than the demands of technology
The promotion of creative uses of technology within schools and educational institutions
The possibility for schools and other educational institutions to promote the creative use of the internet for visual exchanges that can offer new dimensions to intercultural and cross European as well as international dialogues.

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