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“Participative culture” – the way to be an european active citizen
Start date: Sep 1, 2015,
End date: Aug 31, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
Through this project, we propose that students become aware both of the need and of the civic duty to be involved. In this respect, we follow the development of participatory culture of the students, who will get the consciousness of belonging to the European community. The information and the knowledge many young people have about the rights and duties as European citizens are incomplete. It is, therefore, necessary to create a dynamic of learning to live together. It is fundamental to raise awareness about the need for active citizenship, especially in this crisis environment, where other values seem to be of greater importance. Personal survival interests should be compatible with civic behavior. Reviving the feeling that young people belong to the society they live is an urgent task, which asks for a modernized approach to the concept of active citizenship.
This project is structured for 2 years. Through this project participants from 7 countries (high schools) will have a better understanding of European identity and they will be able to emphasize the given points which are:
1. To develop the confidence of our students, their potential for civic engagement and well-being, in order to discourage early school leaving by including a new and innovative subject in the existing curriculum
2. To develop a sense of European identity, to promote Europ ean citizenship based on common values, obtained by participative culture in order to reflect on the common responsibility for the future of Europe
3. To encourage students and the community to become more open to reality and to the European events
4. To determine students and teachers to make better use of ICT and build an on line learning community to be extended to other educational topics
5.To enhance the tolerance and find the way of intercultural understanding in order to eliminate discrimination among the nations and to look for more similarities than differences between us
6. To improve transition between the different systems of education.
Romania will be the coordinator. All partners will participate in the creation and the design of the project products.
The coordinator will establish the activities and the sub-activities in order to create the Gantt table. The management team will have a plan for monitoring and evaluation, communication procedures established between partners, and within each team in each country. Also, the persons responsible for the dissemination will determine the details of its implementation.
During the project, various activities will be held. Besides attending classes online, there will be meetings of the management team, blended mobility of school learners and short-term exchanges of groups of pupils during which there will be established and organized activities. There will be study visits for students and study meetings for teachers. During short-term joint staff training events, teachers will share best practices and will be part of the workshops where they will be initiated into the use of different learning platforms.
The project will have a diary, a product that will be developed in two ways: one in an electronic format, which will include all form from the integrated lessons in curriculum, teaching materials or pictures taken on these occasions, as well as forms from the extracurricular activities conducted within the project (eg., visits, flash-mob); another traveling log , to move from one country to another, containing impressions from partners (students and teachers) about the workshops in which they will be involved during project meetings.
One of the final products will be the glossary of terms specific for the project. Here, there will be defined terms/ structures that have recently appeared in the reality of today's language, for example: effective citizens, participatory culture, and illiteracy.
The project products fall into OER category, so they can be very easily accessed. Online courses may become optional courses in the future and, most important, they can be adapted for secondary school children. The International Symposium, which is the most important way of dissemination, will become a tradition in the organizing country.