“Shape!” – Sharing and adapting a complex sensitisation program in the Central-European region Erasmus Project

Project Title

“Shape!” – Sharing and adapting a complex sensitisation program in the Central-European region

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: Access for disadvantaged; Inclusion – equity; Disabilities – special needs

Project Summary

The project is in line with the founding ideas of all participating organizations: to improve the integration of children with special needs, especially disabled children. It offers a complex programme for kindergarten and schools where social acceptance and inclusion is achieved on personal, professional and societal levels.
Due to the common historic part, in the participating countries there is a similar view about people with disabilities. The medical model dominated in the education and social systems, characterized by separation, specialization, segregation and “healing” approach. Therefore the education of disabled and non-disabled children was inconceivable. In contrast, the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities promotes the social model. Community inclusion, social participation, personalized and individualized solutions, access to services on an equal basis with others became the norm today. To implement these ideas in small societies, we need complex programmes. Our experience is that it is hard to break such long habits.
The projects will take in primary schools and kindergartens with no child with special needs and creates an opportunity for the children and teachers to interact with their counterparts from local segregated, specialized schools or kindergartens. We’ll also bring the issue of disability to the table in wider topics a focus on innovative solutions.
Elements of the societal awareness-raising programme: teacher training (30h) with post-training consultation, organizing a disability week in the classes/groups of the participating teachers, starting common activities for the non-disabled and disabled children, organizing awareness-raising days in their institution.
The program has a number of practical guides, collection of good practices and methodological aids and teacher training programs. In the framework of the project we would like to integrate the collected practices and knowledge and put it together into one material.
Results: participants and activities:
– 24 teacher who participated in the training and is therefore well equipped to handle the topic of disability within their class or school group.
– 6-8 senior trainer, who did the training and the consultation sessions afterwards and is able to hold trainings for teachers in his/her country.
– 24 thematic week for disability in the groups/classes of the participating teachers (meaning 3-4 institution per country. We usually suggest more the participation of several teachers in one institution so they can help each other in the implementation. This means less institutions in the project, but the effect in each institution will be much stronger.)
– 1 awareness raising day per institution with the participation of minimum 100 students and 50 teacher/parent/person from the local community.
Results: materials:
– 1 training syllabus per country, possibly material for local accreditation (depending on the local law)
– Collection of practices and exercise book for the thematic week on disability, including a programme for the whole week and the localised professional material. (1/country, total 3)
– Teacher’s Guide for the activities
– A template script for the thematic week on disability, including the time plan for the preparation and each day, necessary material, the tasks for each participant and organizer, templates (contracts, attendance sheets, bookings etc.)
– Educational material for the training of the trainers. Trainer’s Guide, Collection of practices, training materials.
– 6-8 small movie clips to help the dissemination
We hope that the project will contribute to the creation of a more open-minded and inclusion-friendy educational culture.

Project Website

https://kezenfogva.hu/kep

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 107638 Eur

Project Coordinator

KEZENFOGVA OSSZEFOGAS A FOGYATEKOSOKERT ALAPITVANY & Country: HU

Project Partners

• Asociatia Pedagogilor Sociali CHEIA
• COMENIUS – Pedagogický institút – Pedagógiai Intézet, n.o.