MOVIES AND IMAGE EDUCATION Erasmus Project

Project Title

MOVIES AND IMAGE EDUCATION

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The idea of project MOVIE lies on the consideration that, nowadays, school and group of students, represent a highly multi-cultural and multi linguistic part of society. This kind of richness creates, on the other hand, a major complexity in the management of both the group dynamics within the students and also in the transfer of knowledge for each and every school subjects. It is also equally true that each and every students, of each and every social or ethnic group have an averagely easy access to media on the whole, with particular reference to the social media such as Facebook, Twitter and so on. How they use and, sometimes, abuse the social media becomes part of the process in which they built their own identity, social image and it is, without any doubts, the major carrier of communication and relationships exchanges between them. All this are unquestionable facts that educators and school teachers have to acknowledge and accept, it is a realistic picture of the young people, and not only, and of the society nowadays. Therefore, given these premises, how can education use “the use of media” to improve its teaching methodology in the aim of fighting school disaffection, managing the students social dynamics (a better relationship and communication within the group it is proved to improve the students’ learning and emotional skills) and also convey the curricula subjects at the same time?

Images and new media play a vital role in education and not considering it would make it impossible to keep up with the evolution of the concept of education itself. It is however necessary to ensure that the images and media become a means for conveying both disciplinary and cultural contents and explore a wider meaning of communication that is both verbal and not verbal. The sensitization to not verbal communication in school can help the students develop a better emotional education as, for example, body language is well known to be universal. Trainers and teachers should therefore find a new balance between the use of words (spoken and written) and images and between tradition and new technologies in a perspective of a more contemporary concept of education, in order to better and properly deal with the complexity of society today. A major focus on the education to the use of images, movies and media can become the base for the creation of a common language among teachers and students coming from such different and complex cultural, social, political, religious and, last but not least, linguistic backgrounds. The use of media as common language could help find common points and common languages, common meanings, common emotional reactions that can definitely create the base for a major sharing and understanding between them, it can slowly help to enhance the complexity and differences as a strength other than a weakness so to eventually point out the richness and potentiality of such a heterogeneous composition of the class, with a wider repercussion of their perception of society itself.

Project MOVIE intends therefore to create a Prototype Model of Training and related didactic materials for teachers, parents ans students, innovative, replicable and sustainable at European level, in order to provide them with such instruments that have to be cross curricula, that means teachers have to be addressed in improving both their technical and psychological skills. The European partnership of Project MOVIE will create the Prototype and the didactic materials following a simple logic: creation of the project website, collection of good practices among the participating countries, drafting of a Prototype Model of Training, discussion and perfecting of the draft, testing of the Model of Training in each partner countries, finalizing of the Model, dissemination of the results and of the outputs of the project. The whole implementation of the project will also constantly monitored and evaluated, there will be several international meetings, two trainning courses, two students mobilities and a final international conference , where the results of the intelectual output will be present to the public, as part of it at the end of the project itself.
A special outcome is represented by the On Line Library, a virtual place which will be created during the project and constantly updated during and after the end of the project itself. The presence of this outcomes, which will remain open and freely accessible after the end of the project work-plan, the replicability of the Model of Training and the free access to the didactic materials represents the replicability and sustainability of MOVIE project at a European level in the long terms.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 234072 Eur

Project Coordinator

Eagle Intuition – Formação e Consultadoria Unipessoal Lda & Country: PT

Project Partners

• Bash Art Creative Ltd
• novo plano audiovisuais ldª
• centro educazione ai media
• UNIVERSITATEA DIN ORADEA
• Agrupamento de Escolas Emídio Navarro
• 3 Lykeio Ilioupolis
• Andragoski zavod Ljudska univerza Velenje