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Learning Paths Across Traditions History Society
Learning Paths Across Traditions History Society
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project "Learning Paths Across History, Traditions,Society" (L-PATHS) wants to start a new, different, way of practising inclusion. "Inclusion" of disadvantaged groups of people very often walks on a strange way of "exclusion". Migrants, refugeees,handicapped, elderly are often "excluded" from social living ways by creating something just for them: learning courses for them, cultural paths for them, places for them in which the presence and the work of the "others", the so-called normal, is just a fact of leadership, coordination, temporary engagement.
According to the UN resolution of November 2011, the human rights education is " an ongoing process through which people at all levels of development and in all strata of society learn respect for the dignity of others and the means and methods to ensure that respect in all societies . " We're talking about human rights : the right to be born equal in freedom and dignity, the right to personal integrity and self-determination. Human rights are fundamental. They exist independently of the existence of laws and can not be influenced by the habits and beliefs of a particular community. We have human rights even if there are no laws to protect them , because they are universal and inalienable , belong to every individual, whatever their ethnicity, social status, physical and mental health condition , political condition . We all have a duty to promote the dignity , tolerance and peace , educating individuals and groups to respect them, working to defend and support them.
Through the present project we want to create a stable cooperation between schools, associations , government agencies, voluntary, because the human rights education can move from single and temporary interventions to a continuous joint action in order to start the way for a real opportunity for self-affirmation of the weaker ones whose rights , if they exist, are daily trampled, ignored. Interventions will work on two interconnected paths: a cultural one and a more operative one.
Each partner will put in action learning and cultural opportunities,using Arts and Performing Arts, especially Music, to promote and foster learning as well as social inclusion and a new citizenship. Arts will be the medium to learn about history, cultural identity, language of the country where learners, both native and newcomers,live by involving them in long- lasting lab activities. Integration of different cultures and languages will obviously come along, due the composition of the groups. Language mediators will help in keeping communication alive, yet giving English, language of the project, the the preminent role. In particular in the first year labs will be on The Nature Life Cycle: folk rythes and festivities linked to seasons, weather, harvest... In the second year we'll exploit The Humans' Life Cycle: folk rythes and festivities linked to life and death, divinity, the supernatural....
These actions will be accompanied by more operative measures directed to minor groups and aimed to enhance enterpreunership. They will be both strictly connected to the making of the project's outputs and to the fulfillment of its objectives. So we all will build long-lasting crafts workshops as well as specific labs according to the target group each partner is addressing. The aim of the laboratories like the one described above is not only to ensure the little revenue to the members of the laboratory, but start a new community that could turn into social cooperative in the future. It is a first step to switch from openness to progressive participation of immigrants to build a common citizenship and acquire a new community that is able to overcome the difficulties of the present, projecting every effort towards the near future , making it feel not the immigrant but most host city in its own right , accepted and integrated into every neighborhood in a new town atmosphere.
All the activities, both cultural and operative, will be documented by the same learners guided by trainers, through videos, newsletters. This engagement in dissemination means that they will use English and new technologies they will be trained in as a connected learning activity.
Participation in mobility activities will provide opportunities for individuals to gain new knowledge, skills and cultural competences, which in turn can contribute to their personal development and improve their employability. Whilst it is evident that there are universal benefits of mobility, the achievements for those with fewer opportunities are often considered to be life changing. This can be attributed to the fact that this group often experience barriers to participating in similar educational or social opportunities in comparison to others.