I-PIC

A community of critical educators, learners and researchers investigating the irregular processes of inclusion and citizenship as experienced by migrant youth through participatory and visual methods in secondary schools in Iceland, Norway and the UK.

One of the greatest challenges to education systems globally is to fight against segregating elements of schooling in a culturally diverse and globalized world. The concepts of inclusion and citizenship have become increasingly important with the aim of ensuring access and developing inclusiveness, civic engagement and meaningful participation among all students, including youth who migrate into new and foreign places without formal citizenship. These challenges are best tackled by research and policy collaboration across nations. This comparative in-depth research project reaches is carried out in three metropolitan capital cities of Iceland, Norway and the UK. The aim is to critically examine different paths and processes towards educational inclusion and citizenship as experienced by migrant youth when they participate in culturally mixed educational settings. We do this by engaging students themselves in participatory and visually creative research processes drawing on methods of photovoice and critical spatial literacy while also exploring the social and pedagogical dynamics between different actors through additional data from teachers, parents and peers in the school community.

The I-PIC is led by Dr. Berglind Rós Magnúsdóttir, Associate Professor and Dr. Ólafur Páll Jónsson, Professor at the University of Iceland supported by Eva Harðardóttir a doctoral candidate of Education at the University of Iceland.  Co-researchers and partners to the project are Dr. Jo-Anne Dillabough, Reader at Cambridge University and Dr. Halla Hólmarsdóttir, Professor at the Oslo-Metropolitan University. The group would not be complete without the brilliant teachers, students and parents who contribute to the full research process including its method design, implementation and analysis of findings.

The project is funded by RANNIS The  Icelandic Center for Research and will be carried out during the period of 2020 - 2023.