Block 2.1: Connectivities built by people and groups. Eleni-Aikaterini Moraitopoulou (Ashoka, United Kingdom): Young people’s engagement in public memory work for envisioning possible futures: A study inside the Ashoka Changemaker schools in Europe.

1. Knowledge Hub 1 | Hamburg, 14th December 2018
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[WP2 – Connectivities built by people and groups]
Young People’s Engagement in Public Memory Work for envisioning
Possible Futures:
A study inside the Ashoka Changemaker Schools in Europe
(working title)
Moraitopoulou Elina | @e_moraitopoulou

2. OVERVIEW
1. Research Topic
2. State of Research
3. Research Design
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1. YOUNG PEOPLE’S FUTURE MEMORY MAKING
INSIDE SCHOOLS (WHO • WHAT • HOW)
2. PAST MADE PRESENT IN SCHOOLS : DIFFERENT
MEMORY PRACTICES EXPLORED.
WHICH OTHER MEMORY PRACTICES IN THE
PRESENT BUILD MEMORIES FOR THE FUTURE
INSIDE SCHOOLS?
3. GROUNDED THEORY &QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
METHODS

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Image source: Ashoka documentation on changemaker schools
How are young people’s memories for the future shaped and
shared inside schools in the present ?
School stakeholders
School culture
Individual memories
Collective memories

4. People &
Groups
Memory
Modalities
Memory
Institutions
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PMW

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Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14801655403/
School decoration & architecture
History textbooks
School curriculum

6. 75 CHANGEMAKER
SCHOOLS IN EUROPE
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• Interviews
• Field observations
• Documents (when
possible)
• Grounded theory
approach to data analysis
• Other participatory
methodology methods…
Research methods
Link to the Ashoka Changemaker schools: https://www.ashoka.org/en-gb/program/ashoka-changemaker-schools
“Enabling all students to become
changemakers—young people who have
the skills and confidence to change the
world for the good of all”.
#empathy • #creativity • #leadership •
#teamwork

7. Thank you!
Ross Hall | Ashoka
Pr Dr Gertraud Koch
| UHAM
https://www.poem-horizon.eu/ | @POEM_H2020 |
https://www.ashoka.org/en-gb/program/ashoka-
changemaker-schools