CHILD-UP Horizon 2020 facilitator training for schools

The guidelines are the introductory component of a multifaceted training strategy to support those working with children to utilise facilitation. According to the mission of the CHILD-UP project, the use of facilitation is instrumental to create the most favourable conditions for the creation of hybrid integration in educational contexts. Hybrid integration sees integration as the outcome of contingent negotiation during social interactions (for instance in schools), where every child is acknowledged as author of his or her identity, against pre-determined assumptions based on the ascription to supposed social groups. Children, migrant children, and all children, are the authors of their identities. If the status of authors of knowledge about themselves and about the world is acknowledged for all children, this is a situation of hybrid integration. Facilitation of participation in social interactions can be facilitation of children’s access to the status of authors of knowledge about themselves and about the world. Training in the use of facilitation is key to hybrid integration because facilitation of children’s participation in interactions from the position of authors of knowledge is the most favourable condition for the creation of hybrid integration.