Drawing on Forced Marriage: Teaching Tough Topics Through Comics

借鉴强迫婚姻：通过漫画教授棘手的话题

• 批准号: AH/X004325/1
• 负责人: Hannah Baumeister
• 金额: $ 6.03万
• 依托单位: Liverpool John Moores University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX004325%2F1
• 关键词: Drawing; Forced; Marriage; Teaching; Tough

Forced marriage is a global problem. The International Labour Organisation and Walk Free estimated that at least 15.4 million people were in a forced marriage on any given day in 2017. The UK's Forced Marriage Unit (FMU) dealt with, on average, 1350 cases each year between 2011 and 2019 (and 753 in 2020, despite the global Covid-19 pandemic). Forced marriage is a human rights violation that is illegal in the UK, and States have committed to ending this harmful practice by 2030 as part of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Participants in the 65th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (2021) identified education as the key factor to tackle forced marriage.The proposed project responds to this call from the international community as well as schools in Liverpool and Nottingham for improved education about forced marriage. Based on our existing research conducted as part of the project '"To Have and To Hold": Understanding the Relationship Between Forced Marriage and Modern Slavery', we will develop a comic about forced marriage. It will provide contextual information about forced marriage around the world and focus on different forms, drivers and consequences of forced marriage in the UK, the agency and resistance of victim-survivors, and possibilities for interventions to provide psychological, socio-economic and legal support. Using the comic as teaching material, we will conduct workshops with secondary schools to educate Year 7-10 students about forced marriage and support them to become allies of those at risk or already experiencing this harmful practice. Using Likert scale questionnaires to measure impact, we will prove that comics are an effective medium to improve pupil's alertness and abilities to talk about forced marriage in an informed way so that they are comfortable raising the issue and more likely to support those at risk or already experiencing this harmful practice. This will support young people's development as active citizens. Comics can achieve this because they tell nuanced stories in an accessible and inclusive way that motivates readers to act for a better world. To achieve our overarching aim to improve education about forced marriage, we will collaborate with the artist Ms Emma Brown who will develop the comic, the Relationship and Sex Education Consultant for Nottingham City Council, Catherine Kirk, staff and students from Nottingham Girls' Academy and Archbishop Blanch School who will provide feedback on the comic and participate in comic-based workshops about forced marriage, and the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) Karma Nirvana and Savera who will also support the development of the comic and the workshop plan based on their work with survivors of forced marriage and those as risk and their experience of conducting educational outreach work. We will share our findings with Liverpool and Nottingham City Council and wider stakeholders (other schools, NGOs and local governments, youth and community groups, the FMU, Department for Education, police, social workers, health professionals and legal practitioners), aiming for wider dissemination and increased uptake as well as to input the comic in the cities' standard Personal, Social, Health and Economic education curriculum and to explore opportunities to adjust it for primary education. The comic, together with a teaching pack that we will develop in collaboration with Savera, will be made freely available in digital form for other educators to run similar workshops in the future. Our proposal is therefore a pilot for further impact across the UK.To advocate the use of innovative and creative impact activities to engage with wider audiences, user communities and stakeholders, we will produce a podcast, blog posts, and a report about the project, our findings, and lessons learned aimed at researchers, educators, students, artists, NGOs, community groups, youth groups, and local government.

强迫婚姻是一个全球性问题。国际劳工组织和自由行走组织估计，2017年的任何一天都至少有1540万人被迫结婚。在2011年至2019年期间，英国强迫婚姻部门（FMU）平均每年处理1350起案件（尽管全球流行Covid-19，但2020年为753起）。强迫婚姻是一种侵犯人权的行为，在英国是非法的，各国已承诺到2030年结束这种有害做法，作为实现可持续发展目标的一部分。联合国妇女地位委员会第65届会议（2021年）的与会者认为，教育是解决强迫婚姻问题的关键因素。拟议的项目响应了国际社会以及利物浦和诺丁汉的学校的呼吁，要求改善关于强迫婚姻的教育。基于我们现有的研究，作为“拥有和持有”项目的一部分：理解强迫婚姻与现代奴隶制之间的关系，我们将制作一部关于强迫婚姻的漫画。它将提供有关世界各地强迫婚姻的背景信息，并将重点放在英国强迫婚姻的不同形式、驱动因素和后果、受害者-幸存者的代理和抵抗，以及提供心理、社会经济和法律支持的干预措施的可能性。我们将以漫画为教材，在中学举办讲习班，向7至10年级的学生宣传强迫婚姻，并支持他们成为那些处于危险之中或已经经历这种有害做法的人的盟友。使用李克特量表问卷来衡量影响，我们将证明漫画是一种有效的媒介，可以提高学生的警惕性和能力，以知情的方式谈论强迫婚姻，这样他们就可以轻松地提出这个问题，更有可能支持那些处于危险之中或已经经历过这种有害做法的人。这将支持青年作为积极公民的发展。漫画可以做到这一点，因为它们以一种易于理解和包容的方式讲述微妙的故事，激励读者为更美好的世界而行动。为了实现我们改善强迫婚姻教育的首要目标，我们将与艺术家艾玛·布朗女士合作，她将创作漫画，诺丁汉市议会的关系和性教育顾问凯瑟琳·柯克，诺丁汉女子学院和大主教布兰奇学校的员工和学生合作，他们将对漫画提供反馈，并参加关于强迫婚姻的漫画研讨会，非政府组织Karma Nirvana和Savera也将根据他们与强迫婚姻幸存者和风险者的工作以及他们开展教育外展工作的经验，支持漫画和讲习班计划的发展。我们将与利物浦和诺丁汉市议会以及更广泛的利益相关者（其他学校、非政府组织和地方政府、青年和社区团体、FMU、教育部、警察、社会工作者、卫生专业人员和法律从业人员）分享我们的发现，旨在更广泛地传播和增加吸收，并将漫画输入城市的标准个人、社会、卫生和经济教育课程，并探索机会对其进行调整，以适应初等教育。漫画，以及我们将与Savera合作开发的教学包，将以数字形式免费提供给其他教育工作者，以便在未来举办类似的研讨会。因此，我们的建议是对整个英国产生进一步影响的试点。为了倡导使用创新和创造性的影响活动来吸引更广泛的受众、用户社区和利益相关者，我们将制作一个播客、博客文章和一份关于项目、我们的发现和经验教训的报告，针对研究人员、教育工作者、学生、艺术家、非政府组织、社区团体、青年团体和地方政府。