CROSSCULTURAL WALK IN THE STREETS OF EUROPE (CC-WISE)

with the financial support of the European CommunitySocrates Program, Comenius 2.1 Action

Reni Dimova , Project coordinator

Comenius Contact-Seminar, Szigetszentmiklós/Budapest, Hungary, 8.-11. September 2005

CC-WISE Overall Aim of the Project

to create a model of practicable intercultural and interdisciplinary education based on realities from the world beyond the school;

to support the teacher in the teaching process: the teacher as facilitator vs the teacher as mere lecturer

CC-WISE Basic Info for the Project

2 year project: start 2004, end 2006; 6 partner-countries: AT, BG, GR (TR), ES,

PL, RO The third ever Comenius 2.1 project,

coordinated by a Bulgarian institution Project Ref. No 118963-CP-1-2004-1-BG-

COMENIUS-C21 Project Guarantor: Municipality of

Sopot, Bulgaria

CC-WISE Set backs and Challenges

The project is under guarantee on the pre-financing (the New Financial Regulations);

Delay in signing of the Grant agreement; Lack of previous experience in most of the

partners – challenges to adjust the different accounting systems into common style of reporting and record keeping;

Change of partners (partially result from the requested guarantee on the pre-financing).

CC-WISE Project Objectives

introducing interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches in teaching and learning;

pooling together teachers’ competencies to provide richer instruction for the students;

to encourage acquisition of skills, competencies and strategies for “learning to learn” vs traditional knowledge about facts

CC-WISE Project Target Groups

School teachers in literature, history, geography, biology, foreign languages, etc. in the course of the lower secondary education

Teacher trainers Experts in teaching methods and

authors of teaching aids for the secondary school

Students 10-15 years of age

CC-WISE Project Outcomes

Methodology for multicultural education and interdisciplinary didactic approaches (How to?)

Teacher Manual – a supporting teaching aid (printed in 6 languages)

Teacher Training Course Program Web site CD-ROM

CC-WISE Methodology and Didactics

Constructivist view of learning:- individuals acquire knowledge by

interacting with the environment;- learning is enhanced by challenges

Intercultural education: fostering tolerance, mutual awareness among the cultures and understanding of the values of the cultural diversity in European and wider context

CC-WISE Teacher Manual

Structure: units related to the different topics;sample lessons and tasks for students’ work;bibliography on intercultural education;dictionary – a list of key terms related to the

intercultural education with short explanationsreference list with interdisciplinary links

between the different parts of the Manual and the school subjects

CC-WISE Teacher Training Program

Objectivesto deliver information about the new

methods and didactic approachesto put teachers in the position of trainees

who experience the implementation of the new approaches

Testing Teacher Training Courses will take place in each project country

CC-WISE Further information

www.cc-wise.iccfound.org

Intercultural Cooperation Foundation(coordinating institution)

E-mail: iccf@mail.orbitel.bgPhone: +359 2 8474034Reni Dimova, Project coordinator

ICCFWho we are

ICCF is non-governmental, non-profit institution

performs activities for public benefit instrument for policy changes in

education Other current projects:

- European Constitution in Bulgarian Secondary Education (MATRA KAP) www.eu-constitution.iccfound.org- partner in: BRET (Bulgaria, Romania, Ellas, Turkey) – Language Bridges Encouraging Tolerance (LINGUA-L1) www.bret.cei-bg.org