Tracing and shaping our linguistic cultural heritage for sustainable plurilingualism, intercultural dialogue and active citizenship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Tracing and shaping our linguistic cultural heritage for sustainable plurilingualism, intercultural dialogue and active citizenship

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Context: Language as the most direct expression of culture provides us with a sense of identity. Every language provides a rich and unique insight into different ways of thinking and living, it allows access to the history of cultures and people. It has been the priority of our project to make pupils aware of the value of linguistic diversity as an asset for our society and to explore the wealth of our common cultural heritage to nurture an understanding for the need of intercultural dialogue to promote social cohesion.
Aims: Our project entitled “Tracing and shaping our linguistic cultural heritage for sustainable plurilingualism, intercultural dialogue and active citizenship“ (TSOLCH) has developed, refined and widened our pupils‘ language skills so that they have become articulate, plurilingual, active citizens eager to participate in society in their role as enlightened Europeans conscious of and united by their cultural heritage. TSOLCH has raised awareness of the rich diversity of our linguistic European heritage by TRACING our partners‘ literary/ non-literary tradition of language use as it manifests itself in written /oral traditions, social practices, rituals, festive events, in journalism. TSOLCH has encouraged the continuation of our shared linguistic treasure by SHAPING a multilingual European narrative. Pupils became dramatists, poets, prose writers and journalists who, inspired by their literary/non-literary European forebears, produced a variety of fictional/non-fictional texts, visualized prose, performed their understanding of culture in contemporary interpretations in terms of theatre plays and songs. TSOLCH has enabled pupils to develop their language skills in more than one foreign language. Pupils improved their writing and communicative skills in English considerably, they also acquired basic communicative strategies in the language of their project partners. TSOLCH has given priority to project-based learning integrating principles of entrepreneurial education. Pupils experienced ownership in their learning process since they became teachers of their mother tongue to their peers, designing learning apps and videos. TSOLCH has contributed to social inclusion by endowing pupils with a plurilingual and intercultural competence. TSOLCH has promoted literacy through innovative learning strategies, raising awareness in pupils of the benefits of life-long learning for international collaboration, their future employability, their personal growth. The extensive use of language for both, knowledge building and knowledge application has improved cognitive skills such as critical thinking, intellectual flexibility and sensitivity to verbal and non-verbal performance. TSOLCH has contributed to the development of a European identity by providing ample opportunities of collaboration, by engaging pupils in discussions about current European issues and by provoking a meta-cognitive reflection on being an EU citizen.
Activities:
C 1: Training session on the creation and integration of OERs
Logo competition; Flyers about one’s culture; preparation of a theatre performance; EU anthem; profiles of famous dramatists; Portuguese crash course, European Code Week
C 2: Theatre workshop culminating in a theatre performance; musical performance: EU anthem; multilingual dictionary
SID, Profiles of national poets; poetry writing on the occasion of national days: Mother’s Day, Women’s Day; preparation of a digital calendar; German crash course, multi-lingual dictionary
C3: Poetry writing workshops; Theatre workshop culminating in a public theatre performance at a theatre festival; creation of a digital calendar with proverbs; German crash course: gamification
ebook with poetry results; dissemination ebook; profile of national writers; visual interpretations of a prose narrative; Italian crash course
C4: Language transformation workshops: theatre performance, news report, song, photo report; Crafting elevator pitches; counter speech; Italian crash course: gamification
Journalistic writing; Creation of an e-newspaper and an e-magazine, dissemination e-magazine
Results: Outputs: Logo designs, flyers presenting one’s culture; e-magazine: poetry; e-magazine about climate change; dissemination e-magazines: TSOLCH I and II; Calendar with proverbs; multi-lingual dictionary; Forum exchanges; Reading diary; e-newspaper; Theatre performances; Teaching /learning materials to promote plurilingualism; Language games; Evaluation surveys
Outcomes: Deeper understanding of our European cultural heritage; awareness of the need for language skills and life-long learning; enhanced language learning competence; ability to participate actively in intercultural contexts; exploitation: maximizing the potential of our funded activities so that our results will benefit more educational institutions; dissemination of project results on local/regional/national/international level; professionalization of teachers by sharing teaching expertise

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97718,7 Eur

Project Coordinator

Albert-Schweitzer- / Geschwister-Scholl Gymnasium & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Liceo Statale Niccolò Machiavelli
• Colegio Cristo Rey
• Agrupamento Escolas Marinha Grande Poente