Covid in Cartoons: Empowering a thick narrative of the crisis by promoting cultural literacy and diversity skills amongst vulnerable young people

Covid19对来自弱势群体或少数群体的年轻人提出了具体的挑战，他们可能会因为这场大流行而感到特别无力(Wilton 2020)。为了恢复它们的代理感和归属感，学校不仅需要弥补课程和成就方面的差距，还需要创建一个包容性框架，承认危机的不同影响和亲身经历，以期重建社会凝聚力。研究表明，参与少数群体叙事是确保创伤经历连贯处理的关键，也是避免相互竞争的记忆的关键，这些记忆可能会支撑长期的分裂和受害的动态。因此，该项目旨在培养一种“厚重的”文化叙事，包括对危机和未来的不同背景观点。我们将通过促进来自弱势背景的15至18岁青少年的意义创造过程来做到这一点，因为这一群体面临着具有挑战性的教育转型。与屡获殊荣的教育平台Shout UK和国际漫画家网络卡通合作推出的一个在线迷你课程，将利用关于疫情的政治漫画，让参与者参与代表性策略、不同的批评观点和幽默，以培养他们的文化素养和多样化技能。通过帮助他们接受自己以及其他经历，该项目将产生更高的批判性、所有权和复原力途径。学术出版物将绘制文化意义形成的过程，以及包容性社会反应和课程的战略。在线选集和项目结束电影和报告将确保广泛传播结果。

Covid19 poses specific challenges for young people from vulnerable or minority groups, who may feel particularly disempowered by the pandemic (Wilton 2020). In order to restore their sense of agency and belonging, schools will not only need to remedy curriculum and attainment gaps, but also to create an inclusive framework that recognises the differential impact and lived experiences of the crisis, with a view to rebuilding social cohesion. Research shows that engagement with minority narratives is key to ensuring a cohesive processing of traumatic experiences and to avoiding competing memories that might underpin long-term divides and dynamics of victimisation. The project hence aims to foster a 'thick' cultural narrative, including diverse, contextualised views of the crisis and the future. We will do this by promoting processes of meaning-making amongst 15 to 18 year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds, as this group faces challenging educational transitions. An online minicourse, delivered in collaboration with Shout Out UK, an award-winning educational platform, and Cartooning for Peace, an international network of cartoonists, will use political cartooning on the pandemic to engage participants with representational strategies, varying critical perspectives and humour to build their cultural literacy and diversity skills. By helping them to come to terms with their own as well as other experiences, the project will generate increased criticality, ownership and pathways of resilience.Academic publications will map processes of cultural meaning-making and strategies for an inclusive social response and curriculum. An online anthology and end-of-project film and report will ensure broad dissemination of results.