LET’S STOP VIOLENCE AT SCHOOL THROUGH ART, SPORTS AND LITERATURE Erasmus Project

Project Title

LET’S STOP VIOLENCE AT SCHOOL THROUGH ART, SPORTS AND LITERATURE

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

Our project aimed to reduce violence and bullying in our schools by creating opportunities for social interaction and intercultural dialogue among the young people from partner countries. On account of all these, the students were engaged in researching and collecting material to be exchanged and analyzed. The assertion of our own cultural identity in respect of each, is extremely important especially in era where the phenomena of globalization is leading our younger generations almost to forget about their past origins and to level cultures.
It is also very important to stress that the project activities were aimed at promoting and enhancing positive behaviors while preventing the negative ones. This is an age in which bullying and violence are becoming an increasingly urging problem, to be solved both at school and outside it. This is a reason, why there were following fundamental points at the heart of the project:
-The continuous evaluation of both the recovery of the cultural characteristics of each participant country through its traditional arts and interference due to globalization
-The promotion of basic skills, ICT skills and foreign language skills
-The idea of the school as a place of excellence in constructively learning and participating in civic life
– In a way,violence is affected by poverty and social exclusion so that our Project had a positive approach on this case as we tried to involve students with fewer opportunities.
-The desire to collaborate with local and regional institutions.
– We gave big importance of prevention of early school leaving so we studied on the case in regards with our project’s activities.
Activities aimed to promote and enhance positive behaviors while preventing negative ones. We were aiming to involve hundreds of pupils, some of whom have special needs, in our project.
There were four partners from four different countries in our project. We involved students, teachers, families and other stakeholders.
There were about 64 mobilities of teachers and 64 students +16 accompanying teachers in LEARNING/TEACHING/TRAINING ACTIVITIES in March 2015 in Greece and in November 2015 in Portugal.
All schools-partners had common task, specific tasks in the project and different sub-topics for each project meeting. Coordinator school had one sub-topic but partner schools had two sub-topics. Every school worked on sub-topics beforehand in means of organizing activities in the schools. The meetings were arranged an international atmosphere for the activities to be done by participation of pupils and teachers. After the meeting, dissemination activities took place in every school. So the schedule in beginning of the project, preparation for the meetings, joining the meetings, dissemination of the meetings, ending the project and last; doing extra durable works to provide long lasting dissemination were done.
Schools and sub-topics are defined as below;
LITHUANIA (coordinator)
Topic: A choir, traditional games and costumes-Respecting another person’s point of view-the basis for communication
Product: -Concert (songs against violence)
TURKEY
Topic: ” Traditional arts “
Product: An album with students’ products like Ebru, collage, drawings, etc
PORTUGAL
-Topic: Literature, collage, drawings and masks
Product: Poems, articles, stories etc.
GREECE
-Topic: A theatre play about violence at school -“Supporting and promoting desirable behaviors and attitudes among students”
Product–a theatre play
-Topic:Traditional and National Dances
Product:-Rehearsing and performing dances
A Methodology book “OVERCOMING THE RISKS OF EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS AND IMPROVING BASIC SKILLS” consisting of the guidelines of overcoming the risks of early school leavers and improving the basic skills of those students was created.The study was done by teachers who were from every partner school. The book was published and was put into the libraries of all schools-parnters to be delivered to parents and community.
The main tasks to achieve were:
– Preventing students from violence and bullying
– Improving of key-competences, including basic skills and transversal skills particularly entrepreneurship, languages and digital skills
– Preventing early school leavers and social exclusion
– Developing knowledge among students and teachers of the diversity of European cultures and languages and its value
– Learning about European countries
– Developing pupil`s social and artistic skills
– Preventing youth violence
– Increasing Intercultural dialogue between different counties
– Increasing the ability to solve conflicts harmoniously through dialogue

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 122360 Eur

Project Coordinator

Siauliu sporto gimnazija & Country: LT

Project Partners

• GOKSUN ANADOLU LISESI
• 8th Lyceum of Athens
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Vila Pouca de Aguiar Sul