TITLE:
Evoking Notions Via Inclusive Sharing to Inspire Next Generation
NUMBER:
2019-1-ES01-KA229-064191
PROGRAM:
ERASMUS+
TYPE:
EXCHANGE OF GOOD PRACTICES
BETWEEN:
September 2019-August 2021
PARTNERS:
- IES PUIG DE SA FONT, SPAIN (COORDINATOR)
- HÜSEYIN AK ORTAOKULU, TURKEY
- COLEGIUL NATIONAL DE INFORMATICA MATEI BASARAB, ROMANIA
- COLLEGE HONORE D’URFE, FRANCE
- ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE “SAN GIOVANNI BOSCO”, ITALY
- HEDDA WISINGSKOLAN, SWEDEN
PROJECT SUMMARY
Today, people are facing new challenging environmental issues most of which are due to harmful effects of careless human activities on the social and the physical environment. The EU is taking active measures to counter these in terms of social environment by helping the most vulnerable people in society via promoting equity and inclusion; and in terms of physical environment through a well-established policy of protection. Tackling these issues on a common European ground also requires fostering critical thinking on teenagers; especially through teaching science in an inclusive and multicultural education context, in line with the Paris Declaration addressing ‘diversity in education and training, developing social, civic, intercultural, linguistic competences and media literacy, combating discrimination and segregation, reducing disparities in learning, outcomes affecting learners with disadvantaged backgrounds involving refugees, asylum seekers and migrants’ of whom the EU has urgent need to facilitate integration in order to have a more cohesive/inclusive society. We, the partner 6 schools, have similar issues regarding our content which has been obvious from a survey conducted among the members of our schools. The results show that nearly 91% of them want to join in international projects;87% mentioned that they face social problems everyday;89 % think that the physical environment is getting worse day by day. They also believe that our society needs a serious “lifting”; the mentalities based on altered perceptions, narrow representations and inaccurate behaviors that damage the environment we live in. We are determined to change those perceptions and representations in terms of resolution of social issues and protection of nature in order to transform the behavior of target groups. This transformation is only possible via education and international cooperation. We all have relevant knowledge and practice in different ways and we want to find better solutions to our common social-physical environment problems in a more inclusive education combining different cultures on the same thoughts and feelings due to which this project should be funded. Our project ENVISING brings the terms Environment and Advertising together to develop awareness on the social-physical environment problems via creating an inclusive mobile APP for free use of anyone; on which advertisement-like short videos and pictures- will be shared to evoke critical thinking-based notions, and via shooting a final advertisement to attract everyone’s attention on the ongoing relevant problems. Through our project we aim to give a complete meaning to the word ‘Environment’ as it combines the two of most important issues of today: social integration and environmental responsiveness. Envising will be a project cycle to cover all the environmental problems in 3 subsequent complementary steps to sustain social integration and mental awareness with vital contribution of many countries.
Our students will,
- acquire social, civic and intercultural competences necessary for their personal development.
- learn more about possible career choices and entrepreneurship in creating mobile Soft wares
- develop environmental awareness in tackling with physical and social problems around them
- become more active and determined by developing critical thinking
- raise awareness and understanding of social and cultural diversity via fostering media literacy, communication-cooperation and cross-country teamwork.
Our teachers will learn innovative ICT teaching methods, exchange ideas and teaching practices.
Our schools will increase their quality of education via offering intern
MAIN OBJECTIVE:
1. To raise environmental awareness in our local communities and in the wider public; by offering transnational learning experiences in an open education with innovative ICT-based practices in order to develop critical thinking on the ongoing social and environmental issues; and by creating a free mobile app and publicizing relevant digital content on to step forward against common problems with a joint commitment of young people in an effort towards changing careless mental and behavioral patterns. The planned project activities will also help teenagers to acquire new competences necessary for their personal and professional development.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
2. To better understand the social environment problems we face with at our schools as discrimination, segregation, racism, bullying and violence; and to find solutions to fight against. Through the planned activities, the students will identify and analyze the problems that produce social instability and reduce quality of their education life. Thus, we will contribute to social inclusion which is essential in the European society.
3. To identify the main physical environment categories/problems as Chemicals, Waste management, Water quality, Climate change, Noise; and thus find solutions to improve the quality of our life. The project will evoke awareness of the participants about the environmental issues in order to motivate them in not to leave the school are in a mess and in finding solutions to promote a new lifestyle based on the protection of our environment.
4. To develop digital learning materials and tools in the education we provide; to support the effective use of digital technologies and to teach how to analyze the elements of an advertisement in order to develop the potential to be entrepreneurs in the digital era we are in. By contributing to the creation of our main product, the Envising app, and by shooting an advertisement, our students will make a different use of their ICT skills improving their entrepreneurial dimension that will be a good example of how they can use ICT to start a business. It will be an opportunity for them to observe how digital tools can be used to motivate anyone.
5. To enhance the access, participation and learning performance of our disadvantaged learners and reduce disparities in learning outcomes through involving them in all stages of the project.
6. To strengthen the international dimension of our schools, to build up our capacity for cross-border cooperation and the ability to cope with socio-physical challenges. We will learn from one another by exchanging good practices in tackling with our common problems, and in widening our vision in educating the people of next generation to have the qualities required by labor markets.
RESULTS:
- an App
- an Advertisement
- a Logo
- a Website
- a Twin space
- 2 Calendars
- Posters
- Tutorials
- Social media groups
- Workshops
- PPTs