Project description
Public education for social cohesion in ethnically diverse communities
Immigration does not only increase the size of the population in the host countries, it also increases demographic diversity. If managed correctly, the rapid changes in ethnic composition will not result in conflicts and polarisation. In this context, the EU-funded INCLUSION project will leverage the power of public education to deliver evidence-informed policy actions for the creation of ethnically diverse communities characterised by inclusion and tolerance as opposed to segregation and conflict. The project will implement two educational interventions involving two large-scale randomised controlled trials (running for 4 years) targeting primary and post-primary school children. The findings will be useful for the design of effective educational policies aiming at social cohesion in areas with large numbers of immigrants.
Objective
Human migratory flows are currently at an unprecedented scale. The majority of these flows concern forced displacements, turning into long-term settlements in host countries, making ethnic diversity a permanent feature of our societies. Managed incorrectly, rapid changes in ethnic composition can harm host communities social capital and give ways to ethnic conflicts and polarization. Given that immigration will remain an inevitable global reality for the foreseeable future, designing and implementing inclusive social policies emerge as pressing policy imperatives. Leveraging the power of public education, the overarching goal of the proposed study program is to offer evidence-informed policy actions to help build ethnically diverse communities characterized by tolerance and inclusion rather than conflict and segregation.
The proposal builds on a decade long research agenda to implement and test two uniquely designed educational interventions, one mitigative, the other preventative in nature. These interventions will involve two large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to be run in parallel for four consecutive years. The first study concerns a unique educational action to mitigate ethnic tensions and conflict in at-risk post-primary schools. The second study involves a pedagogical transformation intervention targeting primary school children who will progress into the post-primary schools targeted in the first study. Both RCTs are novel with respect to the content and delivery of the interventions, comprehensiveness of outcomes to be measured, sample size, and long-term follow-up opportunity. The results of this research program will: (i) generate much-needed evidence to design effective educational policies aiming at building social cohesion in communities afflicted by mass migratory flows, (ii) unravel for the first time the causal role of public education in raising tolerant and inclusive generations, free from ethnic conflict and segregation.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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06800 BILKENT ANKARA
Türkiye
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