Beyond fostering text competence and communication skills, 10fold aimed to design life-based learning material that provides inspiration for joint reflection and exchange on discrimination and ways to tackle it. The resulting reading book and comic zine, available in English, German and French, can be used together with or independently from each other in classroom. While these two core tangible project outputs aimed to design high quality learning material for adult learners, they also address trainers working in the field. All material is freely available and adaptable to the needs of different groups of learners through various formats. In this regard, 10fold also strived to improve the competences of educators and other adult education staff. In a survey and a transnational workshop, trainers had the opportunity to evaluate the developed materials, leaving enough time to include their feedback before the finalisation of the results. Through the project’s inclusion of artistic means of expression, 10fold raised awareness about intersectional discrimination among a wider public and created synergies between art and adult education.
The motivation to apply for the project arose from several needs in the field of adult education and beyond: The target group of the participating educational institutions includes adult basic education and language learners, facing intersectional discrimination, based on gender, race, economic and educational disadvantage. Conventional language learning materials address the needs of this target group inadequately. Based on the premise that adult learners prefer content to which they can relate, the project’s main aim was to offer this particular group interesting material through storytelling. Starting from life stories and making these available to others, the project contributed to the creation of high quality learning materials addressing the realities of disadvantaged groups. In addition to language acquisition, the project also aimed at fostering self-efficacy and political awareness among participants. Developing training material and a workshop on the use of biographic narration and creative formats such as comics, the project reached out to adult trainers as a second target group. Another crucial motivation for applying for this proposal consisted in raising awareness for discrimination among a broader public.