Language is essential for participation. No wonder that language plays an important part in adult civic education and requirements for naturalization.
Researchers distinguish roughly two metho...
Themis Ideal Handbook-for-implementation
This handbook describes in detail the relevance, background and methodology of IDEAL, the implementation modalities, characteristics of the target ...
Current civic integration courses are mostly language and knowledge-based and do not take the complex efforts into account that migrants face whilst building a new life in a foreign society. Since 2002, Vantrood Educational Services is researching and developing methods for psycho-social ...
Recent referenda and elections, like the EU-referendum in the United Kingdom of June 23d, show that fear of migrants provokes an open jump shot in public debate. At a recent family meeting, the solution to 'stop migrants' was almost victoriously expressed by some o...
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Participatory adult learning methods are well-known in developing countries, but they are lacking in the array of integration programmes in Europe. Most linguistic oriented courses a...
We recently published this article about IDEAL/Themis in the Journal of Intercultural Relations (Elsevier).
Hyperlink > to the full text article (open access)Background. Courses for migrants in Europe are mostly aimed at literacy in western languages as a means for participation in soci...