Collaborative art-making for inclusion and intercultural education

Deliverables

This project has been carried out with the support of the European Community and the Life Long Learning Programme. The content of this project does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Community, nor does it involve any responsibility on the part of the European Community.

Progress between the meetings

• Monitoring report-positive• Pools of activities• CAREM booklet of activities• Teacher’s guide• Translation-localization of material• Teachers’ Training Courses• Training Materials• Comprehensive Implementation Report

No.  Deliverables

 Delivery Date & Lead 

1 Interim progress report

 1/10/2013

2 Final progress report

 30/9/2014

3 URL to the project's website

 1/2/2013

4 Conferences

 30/9/2014

5 Interim Assessment

 30/09/2013

6 Final Assessment

 30/09/2014

7 Educational Objectives For the Development of Activities

 31/12/2012

8 Pools of Activities

 30/06/2013

9 CAREM Booklet of Activities

 1/5/2014

10 Publication of CAREM teacher’s guide

 1/5/2014

11 Translations and Localisation of Material

 30/1/2014

12 Teachers’ Training Courses

 30/5/2014

13 Training Materials

 30/5/2014

14 Preliminary Reports

 30/06/2013

15 Evaluation Tools

 30/06/2013

16 Piloting Report

 31/01/2014

17 Revised Material

 28/02/2014

18 Comprehensive Implementation Report

 30/09/2014

Implementation

• Two schools (One in Nicosia + one in Famagusta)• Two other schools implemented our activities

Booklet of Activities

• Introduction: presents CAREM partners, the goals and objectives of the project, and conceptualises the notion of collaborative art-making.

• Pools of Activities: The booklet presents the three pool of activities (Encounters with Difference / Marginalisation Reduction / Democratic European Citizenship).

• Activities: The booklet includes a total of 45 activities (15 activities per pool). Each partner has developed 9 activities (3 activities per pool).

[In all the consortium languages]

Teachers’ Guide: Contents

Introduction CAREM theoretical background and educational

approach

Criteria and process of activity development

The CAREM activities

Useful CAREM products and outcomes

Presentation of the Pools of Activities

Presentation of the pools of activities

For each pool of activities the following sections are discussed:

• Getting started• Educational objectives• Suggested activities

‘Getting started’ section

THREE SIMPLE STEPS TO GET STARTED

1. DECIDE ON YOUR EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

Decide what educational areas you wish to target and set your objectives. You can select some of the objectives about ‘Marginalisation Reduction’ listed further below, which you can enrich with your own objectives.

2. CHOOSE THE ACTIVITIES YOU WILL USE

Browse the collection on-line and select the activities that best fit your objectives. Familiarise yourself with the activities you are going to use.

3. DESIGN YOUR ACTIVITIES AND MATERIALS

From the ‘Name’ pool of activities on the website, choose the suggested activities that best fit your objectives. Adjust them and/or design your own activities, in order to address the specific needs and abilities of your own students. Prepare all the necessary materials that you need to implement the activities.

Remarks

The teachers’ guide:

• includes activities which were developed by all partners in the sections ‘Suggested activities’ (for each pool);

• explains the objectives and contents of each pool;

• emphasises that CAREM activities may be implemented not only in Art classes, but during other

modules such as History, Citizenship Education, Religious Education etc;

• indicates teachers’ flexibility to amend, enrich, and differentiate the activities according to their students’ needs and interests.

CAREM Teacher Training Workshop

Contents:

• INTRODUCTION

• INFORMATION ON CAREM

• WORKSHOP PLAN

 • TRAINING MODULE EVALUATION SHEET

Workshop information

• Duration: 3 hours

• Learning activities and methodology:

Lectures, Demonstrations, Individual work, Group work

• Aims: The workshop aims to provide participants with the incentives, knowledge and expertise in order to use the CAREM collection of activities and

materials in ‘real’ classroom environments to advance their practices in order to help their students understand the need to combat prejudice and xenophobia.

Objectives I

• Upon the completion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

1. Recognise and combat negative stereotypical behaviour towards disabilities, ethnic minorities, immigrants and other vulnerable groups.

2. Promote the inclusion and increase the social participation of children who appear to be marginalised by using collaborative art-making.

3. Form art peer groups within which children interact freely, sharing their cultures and their knowledge of other cultures with each other.

Objectives II

4. Understand and promote to their students the value of socio-cultural diversity.

5. Stimulate children’s awareness of a democratic sense of European citizenship.

6. Describe, select and use various collaborative art-making approaches to meet their teaching purposes. Implement the suggested methods in their everyday practice.

7. Propose other innovative approaches of collaborative art-making for prejudice reduction.

Learning outcomes

Participants should be able to use CAREM in order to:

1. DECIDE ON THEIR FOCUS

Decide what educational areas they wish to target and set their objectives.

2. CHOOSE THE ACTIVITIES THEY COULD USE

Browse the CAREM collection of activities on-line and select the activities that best fit their objectives..

3. DEVELOP ACTIVITIES

Develop their own activities of collaborative art-making which are tailored-made to their students’ characteristics.

Workshop Activities I

• Introduction

• The participants form groups

• Activity 1

The participants have to use some of photographs of people who differ in terms of external appearance to make a papier colle with the topic ‘European citizens’.

Workshop Activities II

• Activity 2

The participants to present their family stories of movement/migration (starting from their grandparents) on a world map.

Collaborative drawings of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feelings of migration.

• Activity 3

Definition and value of collaborative art-making

Workshop Activities III

• Activity 4

Each group is assigned one sample CAREM activity coming from the three pools of activities. The participants read aloud their activity an discuss upon possible methodologies for implementing the activity.

• Activity 5

The trainer places emphasis on the learning objectives.

Workshop Activities IV

• Activity 6

Each group carries out the CAREM activity that was assigned to them in the previous task.

• Activity 7

Cross-curricular use of CAREM collection.

• Activity 8

- Summary of the key points of the workshop

- Completion of evaluation sheet byall the participants.

Thank you!