Pathways - free resource. Navigating Gaming, The Internet & Extremism
Friday 27th June 2025
ShoutOut UK have developed a free youth-centred interactive learning package on extremism, radicalisation and Prevent available here: Pathways - Shout Out UK.
It's aimed at 11-18 year old students.
Pathways is a bespoke interactive learning package, developed by Shout Out UK, Hull Council, and East Riding Council as part of the Prevent programme, funded by the Home Office.
The game seeks to inform and educate young people between the ages of 11-18 years old about radicalisation and extremism with a particular focus on online interactions with the Extreme Right Wing.
The learning package invites the user to make decisions for a local character as they navigate scenarios in which they are exposed to extreme ideologies. The scenarios begin with mild introductions to extreme narratives and conversations, escalating to extreme behaviours throughout the game as the character learns more about harmful Extreme Right Wing narratives.
The user will embark on a journey with a first encounter with a harmful ideology, they explore the outcomes of differing degrees of interaction with extremism before being given the opportunity to review the outcomes of their actions.
The interaction ends with an explanation of the UK’s Prevent Programme and a demonstration of Prevent support in relation to the choices that the user selected throughout the learning package.
