Transformative Learning

Socially Engaged Older Adult Education on Refugees and Migrants: Documentaries on Role Model Refugees as an Innovative Strategy Leading towards an Inclusive Society

“…The films are geared towards local people, aiming for them to immerse themselves fully in the film and become invested in the refugees' stories, as well as for the stereotypes to be challenged and rejected. Film festivals -a total of six were organised -have positive effects, which is in line with the findings of Roy (2016). The films depict success stories of refugees that can serve as role models for refugees who will follow in their footsteps at a later time and transformative learning in film viewers.…”

“…Transformative learning can occur as a product of experiences in everyday life, however, it can also take place with the help of selected strategies. Creating art is one of the well-known transformative learning strategies (Roy 2016;Lawrence 2012). In critical pedagogy, films are used in three ways, i.e.…”

“…This has been particularly noticeable since the 2015 refugee crisis (Mikulec 2017;Førde 2019). Various creative approaches to raising awareness of the importance of inclusion (Roy 2016) and the learning community have been observed in different communities and organisations. One of them is RefugeesIN, an international project that constituted the environment in the presented research, the focus of which is on the relationship between raising older adults' awareness of migration and the use of socially engaged art, such as filmmaking.…”