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European Identity

“Alessandro Volta” Schools Bari - Italy

• General information about the project

• Specific "A. Volta" information– about the school– about school strategies– about final products

General information about the project:

The partners

Cyprus: Lykeio Latsion – Lefkosia. The leader

Latvia: Rīgas 33 vidusskola – Riga

Norway: Kårvik skolen - Kårvikhamn

Italy: Scientific Lyceum "Alessandro Volta" – Bari

Lithuania: Alytaus dailiųjų amatų mokyka – Alytaus

APULIABARI SEAFRONT

Technical Institute

- for business

- for Electronics

High school Science

General information about the school:

Long-term objective1) Discovering and identifying each other’s special characteristics regarding the culture and the lifestyles to fight the stereotypes, break clichés and combat racism, xenophobia, discrimination, chauvinism and intolerance.

2) Exploration of the origin of the Europeans and appreciation of the European heritage.

3) Promote Freedom, Tolerance and Democracy through practical intercultural activities.

4) Cultivation learners’ transversal competences of learning to learn, of researching and assessing, and of contributing to build a “Europe of Knowledge”.

Why to participate

To promote the cooperation between teachers and students, the concept of active citizenshipTo improve teachers’ and students’ linguistic and ICT competences To cooperate with students’ parents and the local authorities and involve them in decision making as well as encourage them to support the actions.To encourage students with disabilities or socio-economic problems to participate in the project.To involve students from minorities encouraging the equal opportunities to work on the project and take part in mobility.To develop the culture of rights and duties in a European dimension and disseminate the knowledge of the European treaties and rule.

To research European Identity.To act against racism, xenophobia, discrimination chauvinism and intoleranceTo develop friendship and sharing of a common European dream.To involve students in creative and innovative activities in various subjects (history, culture, lifestyles, language.

What to do

Teachers from each organization will be trained in this “drama approach” and put this method into practice with their students of all ages.

It is also a proposal to develop self-confidence, creativity, participation and social skills.

How to do

All the ideas, adaptations, suggestions and different practices will be compile the “TEACHER MANUAL” which will be translated into the languages of the partnership: English, French, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Spanish and Turkish.

During the visits, the participants will learn a number of new activities based on actor-training and drama resources provided by the host institution.

After that, they will train their own teachers in these new activities, adapt them to their own needs, and finally, the teachers will put them into practice in the classroom.

“A. Volta” presentation

“Alessandro Volta” schools provide morning and evening courses. In the evening courses we have adult and second chance education so students have specific needs.

The school area is generally an economically disadvantaged one because in the South of Italy. The students come from the low-middle class, many of them are workers and pay directly for their instruction. The majority of them abandoned school many years ago and the other have one or more drop out in their scholastic career. So they need specific didactic methodologies.

School policy is based on a social constructivist methodology.All students have to “produce” an educational/technical object each 2 months containing arguments from all subjects organized in a logical map that’s the index of the project.

How to doThe media to use in producing the project are various, from drawing to collage, from textual on paper to hypertext, etc. Now we hope to introduce the drama like one of the media to realize the formative project.

The chosen theme: “Farm Holiday” come from the main economic sectors of the region: Tourism and Agriculture. We intend to give large importance to foods, fitness, beauty, sport, etc. and the recovery of many country farm disseminated in Apulia both near the sea (Adriatic) and on the internal hills (Murgia).

The participation in the European project will be for the school an ache to enlarge the mental perspective of our

students

The next steps Create the links among the keywords bulding a

map Add eventually new keywords in the map

FarmHolydays

FarmWorks

Life in the Farm

Nature

Sustainable Development

TourismAgriculture

Animals

Plants

Naturalfoods

Safety Sport

Beauty

The next steps 2 Look for the themes about the keywords

among the subjects and write in green in the map

Look for the keywords in the internet and write in red in the map

Ask to the teacher to explain the subject's arguments referring to the map

Write a simple project to build and manage a holiday farm

The next step 3

Study the drama methodology

Use the drama methodology to learn about the theme