The General Directorate of Protection for Children and Families has launched this Tuesday the project Migrations and Odysseys of Colors in the Schools of the Canary Islands: building perspectives and responses that welcome, with which it will train teachers and counselors to offer "humanized, comprehensive, ethical and supportive responses to the phenomenon of migration."
The head of this department of the Canary Islands Executive, Sandra Rodríguez, explains in a statement that the objective of this program is to "raise awareness and promote an ethical, educational, inclusive, critical and humanizing view of the reality and experience of the child and adolescent migrant population without family references."
To this end, it is proposed to "make visible the voices of unaccompanied migrant children and analyze, from a critical perspective and with respect for human rights, the informative discourse on migration and migrants, identifying its discursive content and its impact on the construction and transmission of a collective imaginary about" this group.
The training program, which is promoted in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of the Canary Islands Executive, is taught by Calixto Herrera, a graduate in Psychopedagogy from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and worker in the school health area of public education in the Canary Islands.
This initiative is aimed at management teams and teaching staff of non-university public educational centers in the Canary Islands; teaching staff coordinating student welfare and protection and coexistence management teams; professionals from educational and psycho-pedagogical guidance teams and professionals from third sector associations.
The project consists of three training days on each island, distributed over ten hours, in which "the myths and realities in relation to the migratory phenomenon; the experience of migrating in difficult and extreme conditions in the 21st century; the media treatment and discursive content on the phenomenon of migration and migrants or the construction of an educational, critical and humanizing view on the migratory phenomenon beyond stereotypes and prejudices" will be addressed.
The training will be given in the Teacher Training Centers (CEP) of the islands of Lanzarote, Gran Canaria, Tenerife, Fuerteventura and El Hierro, during the months of February, March, April and May, on different days and from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The first day of the training program took place this Tuesday in Lanzarote and will continue on February 18 in Fuerteventura; on February 20 in El Hierro; on February 27 in Tenerife and will close on March 12 in Gran Canaria.
