Patrimoines - Paysages - Perspectives
Start date: Dec 15, 2015,
End date: Dec 14, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The encounter and confrontation of three different European realities, represented by the three cities participating in the project, Dudelange (Luxembourg), Arezzo (Italy), Berlin (Germany), will be the starting point of novel didactics and a new learning experience. Students will be asked to exchange with their counterparts via internet the nature and peculiarities of their environment and the characteristics of their city from an architectural as well as economic and social point of view. An adolescent viewpoint, different from that of adults in many ways, would allow a more spontaneous and innovative angle. The commun language used during the project will be French.
The objectives of this project are: a more experienced and responsible European citizenship; improving ICT skillsets; augmenting linguistic skills in FLE (Français Langue Étrangère): "We only learn a foreign language if there is something to say!" (Daniel Pennac)
The participant pool will be three classes of students aged 15 to 17 years with one class per partner institution, with the decisive collaboration of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris Val de Seine (Higher Education).
We plan distance learning activities as well as “on site” activities. The project will employ cooperative education material. Students will prepare interviews of people important to them in their locality or of “average” people in order to gather useful information and deductive material to engage with. Imagery and film will be used to better reflect the “local” reality to partner students. Surveys will be distributed at the start and end of the project milestones and will be used to assess the evolution of and changes in viewpoints, knowledge and opinions taking place during the project.
The anticipated impact on the students will be an increased awareness of European cultural diversity and a marked improvement in linguistic and ICT skillsets. From the teachers’ perspective, the project will encourage colleagues to collaborate in a multidisciplinary approach and to embark on novel didactics of education projects.
In the long term this Erasmus+ project will significantly contribute to the academic development of didactic and ICT tool sets used in education.
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