School as a Wheel of Togetherness Erasmus Project

Project Title

School as a Wheel of Togetherness

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Migrants’ issues; Integration of refugees

Project Summary

This project idea arise from the migration flow which is still a hot point for all over the world depending on the poverty, wars or other disadvantageous status for people. In this project, social adaptation of immigrant students in secondary school was selected as a main research problem. As it is, this project was a research project and it was designed to search the school experiences of immigrant and non-immigrant students in the same school environment. With this focusing point, this project was aimed to contribute on the inclusive education with the booklet which was aimed to create as a result of this project. To realize this main aim interviews made in Turkey, Germany and Italy with immigrant and non-immigrant students and their teachers. Three schools from Turkey, one school from Italy and one school from Germany was participated to the interview section of the project. Students from Turkey consists of 11 children, six of whom were immigrant and five were non-immigrant students at three different schools. Three immigrants and three non-immigrant students, from a school partner of the project from Germany constitute 6 participants. Students from Italy were 11 children, five of whom were immigrant and six of whom were non-immigrant students at a secondary school. Thus, student interviews were carried out with total 28 students, half of whom were immigrant and half of whom were non-immigrant from three countries. Additionally teacher interviews was consisted of 11 teachers from Turkey, 12 teacher from Italy and 5 teacher from Germany. The context of the interviews and the questionnaires were clarified in the first transnational meeting in Turkey and until the second transnational meeting all partner institutions conducted those interviews in their countries. Then all interviews was transcribed by the partners in English and they were carried to the second transnational meeting by partners. In second transnational meeting in Italy, those transcribes were discussed and the participants were informed about inductive analysis method by partners from Anadolu University. Afterly, transcribes was analysed, themes and sub-themes were clarified and a swot analyses were applied. Finally swot project was completed with a closing meeting which was hosted by German partner. This closing meeting was planed to be held in Frankfurt but depending on the covid 19 virus pandemia it was made in zoom.
As it is aimed at the project application time, a booklet was created depending on the results of the SWOT analyzing in this project. This booklet includes the results of our project research and effective school practices which were observed in project schools or stated in the interviews by students or teachers. This booklet can be useful for all teachers, researchers or policy makers those of whom wants to make contribution on inclusive education and immigrant students social adaptation process. Additionally the data collection toolkit was generated and all those materials is presented on eu project results platform. Moreover the presentations about project process and minutes of the meetings are shared on eu results platform.

Project Website

https://swotproject.org/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 29632 Eur

Project Coordinator

ANADOLU UNIVERSITY & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Eskisehir Il Milli Egitim Mudurlugu
• GEA – SOCIETA COOPERATIVA SOCIALE
• European School of Economics ( IKS- Interkulturelle Schule Rhein-Main)