Show Me Your World Erasmus Project

Project Title

Show Me Your World

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

Summary of the project:
The schools in the partnership value ‘cultural education’ very high as an aspect of active citizenship. Knowledge about other cultures, other ways of living, other lifestyles is a condition for acquiring respect, appreciation for these lifestyles. It breaks through individualization and opens up borders instead of building walls. But cultural education in our schools is not granted the important place it deserves. It is cut up, fragmented and divided among different subjects as crafts, music, drawing, drama, geography, history. Curricula just mainly focus on local and national contexts, rarely allowing both teachers and students to get a glimpse of a wider perspective.
1. We will change this into education in cohesion, not fragmented between different subjects but present as a whole, as an entity in the project theme weeks.
2. We will make education in our schools international.

The project will concentrate on the cultural diversity of Europe, starting with the thematic field closest to the children in stage one, like their daily lives, free time, school and neighbourhood, moving through the themes that determine their family and social life in stage two, like traditions, holidays (both national and religious) and festivals and finally reaching the broadest thematic field of stage three, in which the children will explore examples of their countries’ contributions to the European heritage in the areas such as music, dance, art or sights / places of interest.
The LTT weeks happening in the host schools will be accompanied by LTT weeks happening in all partner schools. Partner schools will plan activities for their students, connected thematically with the main theme of the LTT (which is the same as the theme of each stage).

The topics on which we focus are divided into three thematic stages in the following way:
1. Stage one: ‘Me and my world – our ways of life’, in which students will learn to understand and appreciate our peers from other countries ;
2. Stage two: ‘My community – our traditions’ in which students will learn to understand and appreciate our respective cultures and their roots.
3. Stage three: ‘My country – our national treasures’ in which students will learn to understand and appreciate our contributions to the European heritage

All these topics will first be discussed at schools in the context of each individual child, each individual community and each individual nation and then given an international dimension through exchanging works, presentations, experiences among peers, through LTT events with international groups of students working together and through project Theme Weeks, with each school’s students exploring other schools’ productions and contributions and doing their own research into culture topics covered during the stage in question.

By the end of this projects all schools will have realised cultural education in three structural project weeks each year. Teachers will learn to organise the education in the way to put emphasis on teaching tolerance and understanding in a European cultural context and receive motivating tools for it.
Besides:
● All schools will contribute their suggestions, examples and worksheets for a teaching toolbox and teachers’ guide on cultural education, which will be available on the project website.
● Pupils will practice a variety of cooperative work methods, under the supervision of teachers, who will be trained to organize the education process in such a way.
● Teachers will gain competences to train pupils in developing their basic skills in ICT and foreign languages.
● Teachers will create a strong and motivating learning environment for the pupils in general, and in particular for cultural education.
● In the years after this project cultural education will be continued in eTwinning projects with the same or other school partners.

There is also a possibility that the schools will find it useful to explore some of the aspects of the project more deeply and consider continuing the research in another partnership.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 154140 Eur

Project Coordinator

De Weijerwereld & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Scoil Iosef Naofa
• Yedieylul ilkokulu
• Szkola Podstawowa nr 34 im. Mikolaja Kopernika
• 11o DIMOTIKO SCHOLEIO PTOLEMAIDAS