Virtual experiences of Rio's favelas for secondary schools

Virtual experiences between Rio's favelas and secondary schools

This projekt is based on a collaboration with Brazilian community activists and explores the use of virtual experiences and excursions at the crossroads of community empowerment and education.  

The projects brings together favela community groups engaged in community tourism and heritage projects, with UK secondary school pupils and tutors in the UK. It creates virtual pedagogical experiences that extend audiences for the community groups and create novel educational experiences for UK schools.

 The project is funded by an internal Oxford Brookes Impact grant. Professor Fabian Frenzel and doctoral student Bernardo de la Vega Vinola,  together with Dr Camila Moraes (Uni Rio), Dr Juliana Maynard-Sardon (Nottingham Trent) and Professor Isabella Rega (Bournemouth) conducted the pilot intervention over four dates between May and July 2024 at Bosworth Academy in Leicestershire. The ultimate aim is to promote the intervention to other schools, including in Germany.

This work is based on a previous AHRC funded Local Heritage and Sustainability project involving five universities, one ministry office and nine local organisations in Mozambique, Malaysia, Brazil and the UK.