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Summary of the project
This project has bought together
five European
schools from
France, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania. Our mix of partner schools reflects the
diversity within the European Union.
This partnership includes public schools from small rural communities to big cities.
Students will discover,
study and share information about food and traditions in all of our partner countries.
They will use conventional and new technologies to compare folk motives,
dances and songs over two years,
produce a multilingual dictionary of cookery terms,
learn to cook new traditional food recipes
from the
partner countries
and
dance and
sing folk dances and
short songs from the
partner countries,
make a calendar of international festivals,
a picture cookery book
of traditional recipes,
and finally produce a video meant to teach a few basic steps in folk dances from all partner countries.
Regular meetings of teachers will ensure appropriate planning and evaluation at every stage. These will also enable a thorough understanding of European educational systems.
Our project will not only benefit each school but also their associated local communities.
As our pupils gain a greater understanding of
food production and preparation,
of the importance of preserving and respecting national, and European values and traditions, the knowledge of these young Europeans will directly filter upwards
through family,
local and international communities
creating a healthier,
more tolerant and open-minded generation of Europeans.
In such a
globalizing world we need to know,
respect and preserve both our own traditions and other cultural motives in the EU.
These make us
learn to respect each other by learning similarities and accepting our differences.
Thus we will feel more comfortable, more tolerant, and secure.
Exchanging traditions,
life styles and ideas about different educational systems will empower students and teachers to use their communication skills more efficiently and students will have a chance to practice what they have learned. They will understand the importance of learning foreign languages
(English as the main language of the project,
but also less studied languages of the partner countries, such as Romanian, Italian, French, Portuguese,
Polish).
We'll also learn some mostly used greetings and useful expressions in each partner's language.
The
need for this project came from our observation that teenagers nowadays tend to overlook,
if not sometimes look down on their own traditions,
on one hand,
and on the other,
to be quite intolerant with
cultures they are not familiar with,
so they do not understand completely.
While working on this project,
that is writing the traditional cooking recipes,
learning about folk costumes,
songs and
dances, students
as well
as teachers
will get to
know
their
importance
to
each
culture
as
well
as
their influence/presence in nowadays fashion,
music,
dances and even if our modern world changes rapidly, it will always come back to its traditional values.
Objectives of the project
The theme of our project will address the following Comenius objectives:
to develop knowledge and understanding among young people and educational staff of the diversity of European cultures and languages and its value.
to help
young people acquire the
basic life styles
and
competencies necessary for their personal development
The concrete objectives of our project are:
to encourage
students
to
be
aware
of
and
value
cultural
and
linguistic
diversity
in
Europe.
to promote
students
personal
and
professional
development
in order
to
become
open
minded, tolerant and active European citizens.
to encourage
foreign
language
learning
and
sharing
through
the
use
of
technologies.
to enhance
the
pedagogy
of
all
participating
schools,
share
knowledge
and
exchange
didactic
experiences
between
teachers.
Approaches to achieve our objectives:
traditional costumes, habits,
songs, dances and cooking recipes will be highlighted in our project, thus the participating partners being directly involved in learning and sharing their own culture and language as well as the ones of the other countries in the project.
students and teachers will have direct contact and communicate with pupils and teachers in 7 other countries.
They will work together
to
produce the mini dictionary,
cookery booklets and learn different folk dances and songs.
The fortunate and interesting part of our project
is
that we have involved
8
countries coming
from such different
parts of Europe,
having
different
languages lifestyles,
culture and even religion, which turns out to be an immense advantage and possibility to prove
the "beauty"
of diversity
and learning
"the lesson of tolerance and acceptance". This will also encourage community
groups to become involved
in the project.
Our cultural calender will display the richness of traditions within the European Union.
Our cookery and greetings dictionary with associated CDs of traditional songs will encourage our students
to
communicate
in
other partners countries'
languages.
Using new
technologies
in learning simple greetings and cookery terms and phrases will motivate every one to communicate.
during mobilities, planned observations in each school will be time tabled.
On their return from the
mobility
all
teachers
will
complete
a report
about the school
and its pedagogy to share with colleagues in staff meetings. Discussions will be held on their implications for each school.
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