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Change Makers IUA and RTÉ documentary
Episode Six - Feb 7th - 8.30pm RTÉ One & RTÉ Player
RTÉ Player Catch Up - Change Makers
Sorgente Team - Trinity College Dublin
The Irish Universities Association has partnered with RTÉ and New Decade TV to bring Ireland’s Change Makers, the most transformative research-led projects and the inspiring people behind them, to Irish television this coming January and February 2022.
The 6-part series will showcase the remarkable and lasting public impact of leading research projects by eight universities in Ireland in areas such as children’s health, health technology, education, youth justice, gender equality and inclusion, as well as the environment.
Episode six follows two inspirational and ground-breaking arts-based projects that are helping amplify the voices of young people who have recently come to live in Ireland. The TCD Sorgente project helps young asylum seekers and refugees engage with their imagination, while learning English as a second language. The ‘CIPHER Hip Hop Interpellation’ project is the world’s first global study of hip hop music and culture. University College Cork’s Dr Griff Rollefson and a team of global researchers are investigating how and why this highly localised African American music has translated so easily to far- flung communities around the globe.
Sorgente is a research project that seeks to explore the connection(s) between performative language teaching, motivation to belong and second language learning, with students from refugee and migrant backgrounds, and their teachers, attending English language classes in Dublin, Ireland.
IRC funded, Dr Erika Piazzoli, Assistant Prof in Arts Education in School of Education at Trinity College Dublin is exploring the connections between performative language teaching, motivation to belong and second language learning.
Erika works with community, academic and industry partners to encourage young refugees and migrants to engage with their imagination, while learning English as a second language.
This honours both their heritage identity and their new identity as migrants, while supporting teachers that work with refugees and migrants to use the arts, focusing on the present and future, rather than on the past.
IUA and RTE Documentary Series 2022