In frames of the last work package of the Remembrance Project GREM, the Multiplier Led Events have started taking place in different schools in Catalonia.
The activity begins with the following context:
“A group of historians has come to present a new educational methodology to encourage younger people's interest in history. In addition, they want to show what the historian's job is and what are the tools they work with.”
The historians (educators) introduce a suitcase they found in a lost archive. We start from the hypothesis that this suitcase was the property of a 20th century European businessman who suffered sabotage in his factory. It is for this reason that they ask for help from the participants to help clarify the mystery that hides the suitcase.
The participants are divided into 4 groups (one for each Research Axis) and the first object is distributed to each of the groups.
Key participants in the project include educators, with a particular focus on teachers of history, philosophy, ethics and religion at the secondary level. This collective will play a fundamental role as transmission agents, bringing the project to the classrooms and directly influencing the training of young people.
On the other hand, political leaders and public officials who operate in the field of education at local level are highlighted. These professionals will not only contribute to the integration of the project in the educational framework, but will also act as multipliers of the expected impact, ensuring effective dissemination.
The third target group is the game's own audience: young people and teenagers. This sector of the population forms the central focus of the project, since the game is specifically designed to sensitize them and encourage reflection on issues of democratic memory. Young people and adolescents are not only receptive to new forms of learning, but also become active agents of social change when they awaken to these fundamental questions.
This diversity of audiences ensures that the project comprehensively addresses the different levels of the educational community, from the academic field to the direct experience of young people, thus creating a significant and lasting impact.
AXIS 1 - A story that tells us about resilience
AXIS 2 - A peculiar businessman
AXIS 3 - Little-known diversity
AXIS 4 - Evasion networks
Follow-up proposal
Once the Edutainment activity has been completed, and as a result of the debriefing of the activity, educators are invited to develop a specific follow-up with their groups of young people to continue working on the aspects raised by the activity.
According to the level of maturity and interest of the young people involved, we propose a list of possible lines of research directly related to the exercise of educational entertainment.
Find below some potential aspects to develop as a direct follow-up to the activity.
Research lines
Republican Exile
Routes of exile
The Great Retreat
Concentration camps in France (living conditions of republicans interned in concentration camps in France under the Vichy regime)
Fascist Dictatorship and Repression
Franco/fascist repression of Catalonia
Persecution of cultural movements
Persecution of political movements
Persecution of social movements
Repression on women
Collaborationists and Repression (France)
Internment camps in France
Repression under the Vichy regime
Persecution by the Gestapo
The role of Catalan women in the resistance movement
Involvement of the Republicans with the resistance in France (idea to liberate Paris-Berlin-Barcelona)
Nazi extermination camps
Constellation of extermination camps
Persecuted groups
Holocaust
Resistance to the Work Camps
World War
Various forms of resistance
The Catalan republicans within the French resistance
Participation of women in the resistance
Forms of resistance: sabotage
Defeat of Fascism in Europe
Escape routes from the Nazis through Italy, Spain, the Vatican...
Support for the escape of Nazi criminals to Latin America
Operation "Paperclip" recruitment of Nazi scientists in the United States
Countries harboring Nazi criminals
No defeat of Fascism in Spain
The Dictatorship continues for 40 years
Repression on Catalonia
Fascism today
Identify hate speech today
Banalization of Fascism
Growth of the extreme right in Europe
