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"Social integration of refuees is a complex and gradual process with legal, economic, social and cultural dimensions. It imposes demands on the receiving society. Refugees are often presented as vulnerable, poor, benefit-dependent and a potential social and economic threat to the receiving society. This affect how local communities receive refugees and makes their social inclusion into the receiving country very difficult.At this point, the governments may take actions, implement policies or develop mentorship programmes but the real voice of refugees can only be heard in the streets, schools. In this gradual process, the young members of the society should definitely take roles to welcome newcomers to the community. Before they are exposed to the flood of news, biased remarks of the media and politicians, they should form their own opinion, have a deep insight to the refugees, and focus on the humanitarian side of refugees and how to make the community they live together better.In this Project, as the young members of the societies of hosting nations, firstly, we focused on listening the voice of refugees, developing an empaty, making a reflection of each nations attitudes to refugees and show a reaction by writing, illustrating and designing children stories about refugees as the first step. To reach this aim, we will integrate many disciplines to the Project process including foreign language competence, art/literature competence, writing competence in both mother tongue and in foreign language. The participant students will engage in many meaningful activities to reach the final outcome of the Project, such as making interviews with refugee peers to decide the topic of their books,joining a number of seminars by the experts such as a children’s book author, illustrator and bibliotherapist.As the 2nd step of the Project, the students will colloborate with a Turkish primary school to see if their story book will have an effect on the perceptions of the primary sch students. They will conduct a pre test to define the kids perceptions of the “concept of refugees”. After the reading sessions, a post test will be conducted and they will analyse tha data gathered from both tests. Thus, the participant schools will have produced an academic poster at the end of the Project.While carrying out this project, 5 partners will work together, involving Turkey, Italy,Romania, Denmark and Portugal.Italy worked on an etwinning project called ""Stories to be Told"" which can be seen as the first step of this project in 2017-2018 years. The project was awarded with 4 national and a European label and was among the first 200 projects in Turkey and also given""a special category award"" in Romania. Portugal and Denmark are added to enrich the activities and disseminate the books throughout Europe.Also, according to the statistics of UNCHR Turkey hosted the largest number of refugees worldwide, with 2.9 million people, while the rest of the European countries hosted 2.3 million refugees. So, healthy integration of refugees is a key issue in Turkey. With the implications of this e twinning project, the partners agree to take a step forward and enhance the number of stories and work in mixed groups rather than work in schools. Adding a primary school to the Project is a crucial when the evaluation of final outcome is considered. Improvement the perception of kids is one the main aim of this project. Short term exchange of pupils will be in Romania, Portugal and Italy and there will be 2 short term exchange of teachers, kick off meeting in Turkey and final meeting in Denmark.At 1st LTT of pupils, the students will write children's stories about the difficulties that the refugges experienced; 2nd LTT will be drawing session for pupils. They will put their art skills into practice and illustrate the stories and at the last pupils' LTT they will make the graphic design of the books. The results can be divided into two categories; CONCRETE RESULTS which includes high level use of e-twinning portal, Project logo, slogan, leaflets and blogpage, Project corners, story book, Efficacy questionnaires, seminars given by experts, and an action research article/ posters; ABSTRACT RESULTS are conscious members of society about the refugees, an awareness on the difficulties experienced by the refugees, increased cooperation and international experience, high tolerance towards diversity and deep understanding of the concept of being a refugee."
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