Coventry University 2019 Staff Conference & Excellence Awards 

Description

Presentation on 'Telling Our Stories: The Transformative Experience of Journalism and Refugees'"Telling Our Stories" is a community-based project which brings together BA Journalism students and the newly-arrived migrants to Coventry to capture and share their stories. This project tested and developed students' practical skills within a structured critical
context, which interrogated the impact of the media’s approach to refugees. Students were introduced to the theoretical lens of Peace Journalism, which interrogates the normative standards by which news media presents information; they then worked with migrants to present their stories in a way which challenged those standards. Students’ learning was enhanced in two levels; firstly, they implemented the skills they had learned in the classroom in a real-world context and so reinforced the learning outcomes of the module. However, the second, transformative level, was the impact of the project on their intercultural awareness and competencies and their motivations to critically engage with their chosen profession.

Period	25 Jun 2019 → 26 Jun 2019
Event type	Conference
Location	Coventry, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	Local