Transdisciplinar project based on building experiencies on water through an educational and inclusive approach for students with intellectual disabilities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Transdisciplinar project based on building experiencies on water through an educational and inclusive approach for students with intellectual disabilities

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

BEWATER Project has a transnational character by promoting a transdisciplinary discipline through aquatic interventions with students with intellectual disability, via curricular learning processes, collaborating with 3 partners with high level of professionalism in inclusive education and alternative learning methods experience. We have at our disposal aquatic facilities to develop this methodology which will be enriched with actions and intellectual products development.
It could be employed in to a great number of European institutions and beneficiaries to meet learning problems, being a motivational an innovative proposal for students with intellectual disability.

Objectives:
To develop a transdisciplinary methodology with educational activities in the aquatic media, improving the students with intellectual disability´s learning process, as well as improving his/her self-government and life quality with an alternative method, in the aquatic media.

It a tool which responds to diversity reaching in an alternative medium achievement in the learning process, thanks to the physical properties of the water, which enable movements, making them feel more free, relaxed, experiencing sensations and being aware with significant activities.

Guides, manuals, protocols and formation are the main lines to develop to reinforce the development of the Educational Community, implementing the transdisciplinary methodology.

Participants:
70 students with intellectual disability, pluridefficiency, serious development disorders, serious health problems, mental disorders, behavioural problems and/or language disorders and epilepsy with range ages between 3 and 21 years; professionals and families from the 3 special educational school´s partners, which will participate in this project (CCEE Instituto San José, España; Escola 1º ciclo CRPSF, Portugal y de Irlanda dos Colegios “Islandbridge Special School” y “Saint John of God Community Services Liffery Services Day Service).

Activities:
Three transnational meetings, 4 innovative and intellectual products, entertainment and educational activities offered to professionals and families, to validate and implement in the centers. Developing one combined mobility activity between students and professionals, develop 3 multipliers events (one in each country) inviting authorities, associations, educational entities and companies to presents results and project proofs.

During the implementation phase, the students will participate in the aquatic sessions developing educational competencies to reinforce their acquired skills and abilities.

Methodology:
Disabled people need a holistic approach, and so we will develop an innovative transdisciplinary methodology versus a conventional approach, reaching common and shared objectives with families and students, offering responses to the educational and bio-psycho-social aspects.
It is an initiative that brings interventions and knowledge in an alternative space through the design of a guide manual as the basis of multidisciplinary and theoretical/practical knowledge; with guiding documents for the basic process of aquatic intervention, generating precise information which allows to identify, in a reliable way, the strategic lines to intervene with the students, obtaining a greater scholar performance, though aquatic intervention.
Disseminate the experience via multimedia and technical support for all the European Educational Communities which want to use pioneer spaces and resources as an educational tool and for families, guides with protocols and standards for a basic intervention process in the aquatic media.

Results, Benefits and Impacts:
Intellectual Outputs (Guides, Manuals, Protocols, Learning Web, Tutorial videos and TIC) will reflect an innovative pedagogical approach that will complement the traditional learning of the classrooms. The project will improve the participants’ life quality and their families, in every aspect, no just educational, as it will be implemented as a complementary and avant-garde educational program.

The expected impact is to improve and increase pedagogic solutions, as well as the student´s teaching learning processes via the aquatic media. Being a paradigmatic methodology change in the disabled area. The transdisciplinary aspect will produce a benefit of the student, improving in the curricular areas, generalizing leanings in an attractive and motivational environment.

The project will continue afterwards and will reinforce the cooperation between the partner organizations. In a political level, the results will feed the new local policies development, national and European. The project will reinforce a transformative pedagogical perspective which will benefit the needs and aspirations of the intellectual disabled students.
Via BEWATER, this European Project aims to become a hope declaration and a chance of disabled students in an inclusive world.

Project Website

http://bewatererasmus.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 194478 Eur

Project Coordinator

FUNDACION INSTITUTO SAN JOSE & Country: ES

Project Partners

• SJOG Community Services Limited
• INSTITUTO DAS IRMAS HOSPITALEIRAS DO SAGRADO CORACAO DE JESUS