CCMS Students work with ARROW SA

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Postgraduate students at the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) have joined forces with Art: A Resource for Reconciliation Over the World (ARROW) SA to conduct interesting and exciting workshops and research projects.

CCMS honours and masters students conducted workshops at Bechet High School and worked on an initiative linked to natural and cultural heritage programmes for schools at the Palmiet Nature Reserve.  Some of the students have done honours research projects on the activities.

The partnership between ARROW and CCMS began several years ago when the Centre was approached by Mr David Oddie of St Marjon University in Plymouth in the United Kingdom to host ARROW.

The CCMS team agreed to take on the project and CCMS graduate Ms Mary Lange was employed as facilitator.  After a few years ARROW SA became a self-funded independent organisation now formally affiliated with the Centre.

Professor Keyan Tomaselli of the CCMS pointed out that theory in practice via activities at and involving Bechet High School benefitted a community of learners, built educational capacity, and integrated participants into the wider world via the international organisation with the learners themselves then becoming the facilitators.

‘The partnership has been working well for nearly a decade and we hope that it will continue.  Some of the Bechet learners who have participated in the ARROW programme have gone on to study at university level. 

‘The programme facilitates their personal growth and self-confidence while CCMS students get to experience the joys of community development,’ said Tomaselli.

-          Melissa Mungroo