Fables, mirror of life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Fables, mirror of life

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: Inclusion – equity; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The main priority of the “Fables, mirror of life” project is to use the fables of Europe as an educational tool in French-language teaching by introducing the practice of the flipped class in the 6 schools of the partnership. The teachers will promote the works of the major fabulists of their 6 countries: Aesop, La Fontaine, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Felix Maria Samaniego, Tomas de Iriarte, Grigore Alexandrescu and Leen Valkenier to produce 24 video capsules as well as the worksheets that they will then integrate in their teaching. The practice of the flipped class combined with other pedagogical methods such as the “Think-pair-share” method will allow students to work at their own pace, to have direct access to knowledge and to help each other to obtain the best results (inclusion, equity). The pedagogical approaches used and the conclusions drawn during the two years of this Erasmus+ project will be available to all teachers in partner institutions wishing to diversify their practice through the Erasmus and Twinspace platforms and seminars.
The many activities carried out before, during and after the mobility of the project will give pupils the opportunity to discover an important aspect of the common European heritage: the fabulists of Europe from antiquity to the present day, their country of origin, their fables and their morals. Particular emphasis will be placed on the morality of the fables that the pupils will relate to important current topics (economic, political, social, respect for nature and the environment) and to their own lives by choosing the fables they find very useful for them. In the second case, they will write a list of good habits to adopt in order to become better in family and society.
The project also attaches great importance to the creativity of the students who will be invited throughout the project to dramatize fables, produce artistic works, recite, sing and finally become fabulists, by participating in the fables competition. The two best fables invented and written by each school will be translated into English and all the languages of this partnership. The students will illustrate them.Totaling 12, these illustrated fables produced by the students of each country will then compiled into a booklet published in Romania. Then during the mobility phase in Romania, the book will be officially launched at the National Museum of Romanian Literature with the presence of an author, a publisher, a literary critic and Romanian journalists. Copies of this booklet will be distributed to students participating in the project but also to students from other schools.
Finally, through the fables, through the portfolio of the students participating in the project, through the platforms such as eTwinning, the project sites etc… and through the various events open to the public, the project team will have the opportunity to show the societies of the past and of the present as mirrors, In order to build the society of tomorrow.

Project Website

https://uraniasklika.wixsite.com/fablesmiroirdelavie

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 162180 Eur

Project Coordinator

3 Gymnasio Kalamatas & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Wentzinger Realschule
• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA MIRCEA SANTIMBREANU
• OGEC St Benoit – Maupertuis
• INSTITUT CAMPCLAR
• Haarlemmermeer Lyceum