Let’s break stereotypical thinking Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s break stereotypical thinking

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: Social dialogue; Migrants’ issues; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

The project “Let´s break stereotypical thinking” involves secondary schools from three different countries: Poland, Spain and Italy.
The main problem discovered during needs’ analysis is existing stereotypical attitudes towards different cultures and values and the lack of system solutions to combate it. The main aim is to reduce existing stereotypical attitudes towards diversity, promote acceptance, increase intercultural understanding (connected to priority social inclusion) to prepare schools for working in multicultural society. We aim to redefine European citizenship based on values as freedom and tolerance. The project involves 48 students (aged 15-19, 50% of them are threatened with some kind of exclusion), 12 teachers – for international mobilities and the whole schools societies (including parents) for local activities. Spain and Italy has already facing the problem of discrimination and segregation having the 8% immigrants in school society. Poland have no immigrants yet but observe increasing of radicalization of the students presenting stereotypical thinking against the diversity. Partners have different experiences and competences so that each of them will be the leader in some areas (like e-Twinning, IT, bilingual teaching, communication). Seeing the lack of system solutions for immigrantes as well as dydactic tools and materials for teachers to create the open and tollerant environment we are motived fot the project to build a new potential for schools and become a leader in this area in our local environments.

Our objectives are:
– Building a civil society based on openness, tolerance and a mutual respect of values and worldview – introducing a civil education programme to schools and enriching programmes of humanistic subjects in such contents as culture, history, tradition and modern social problems of partner countries, legal solutions and current state of migration in Europe (long-term impact);
– Creating a friendly atmosphere for immigrants, developing a help programme for immigrants (long-term impact);
– Equipping teachers with interpersonal, cultural, psychological and sociological competences as well as methodical materials which help in a didactic and educational process concering intercultural integration, leading teaching process in a culturally and worldview diverse environment (long-term impact);
– Building an international potential of schools – staff experienced in managing international partner projects, prepared fot the next projects ((long-term impact);
– To increase critical thinking – enriching curriculums in questions of social stereotypes, media communication, language of advertisment, manipulation and ways of dealing with them (long-term impact);
– Developing of linguistic and IT competences of teachers and students;
– Promoting school as an environment which aids the development of a civil society based on European values and counteracting social exclusion –Formal introduction of World Refugee Day, Europe Day and Erasmus Day to a school calendar (long-term impact);

We want to reach our results by local and international activities, including 3 mobilities in Poland, Italy and Spain:
– Excursions to discover the value of European cultural heritage and explore there the main topic of the project;
– Trips and activities in multicultural groups to break national barriers and build relationships;
– Workshops for students and teachers to increase multicultural understanding, to promote cooperative learning, to increase critical thinking;
-International discussing panel and meetings with experts;
– Meetings with parents;
– Exhibitions and meetings for the local community;
– Writing articles for the local press;
– Preparing common happening in the city;
– Sharing ideas and results of work on e-Twinning and TwinSpace platform and Facebook Project Profile;

Planned methods are: peer-learning, CLIC classes, personal training, sightseeing, brainstorm, psychological games and tests, using IT, sharing materials on e-Twinning, discussions, exhibitions, analysis of media’s communicates, learning by doing like: art and music works, presentations, posters, decorating T-shirts, performances.
The expected results are divided into outcomes which are: reduced stereotypical attitudes towards different cultures and values, promoted inclusion among students, improved recognition of media manipulation, a redefined European Identity, international potential for schools and outputs which are: shared good practice for social inclusion, teaching materials for implementing social inclusion, didactic tools, materials and methods to implement social inclusion, critical thinking and communication, the help programme for immigantes, a civil education programme for schools, presentation of final product results on e-Twinning platform;
All the results will be described also on Erasmus+ Results Platform. All participants will get Europass Certificate.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 75692 Eur

Project Coordinator

II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace im. Mikolaja Kopernika & Country: PL

Project Partners

• I.S.S. CARDARELLI
• IES CRISTOBAL LOZANO