ISTITUTO PROFESSIONALE DI STATO PER I SERVIZI Commerciali, Turistici e della Pubblicità

“Sandro Pertini”88900 CROTONE

Varna 24- 28 February 2010

Lifelong Learning Programme

Comenius

MINT “Mind the Gap –

Migration Needs Integration”,

Our school pays great attention to the pupils at risk of social exclusion like migrants,. We believe that the school is the main place where to find social and cultural diversity, to accept it and to build the integration process.

DRAMA ACTIVITIES IN THE INTEGRATION PROCESS

By providing new tools to manage new relationships. Drama techniques, for example bring young people to: a more effective communication with their peersthe creation of a self positive imagea satisfying individual identity

HOW?

they are based on group workopen up to different forms of creativitydon’t generate competitivity or exclusion, but match diversity perfectly.

Drama activities help the social growth of students as:

The need to offer additional training opportunities to migrant students in order to make them feel better integrated is supported by the following contents:

extracurricular learning setting to give further practice in Italian languagedrama as a tool for creating a playful, relaxed and creative atmosphere where to compare different customs and traditionswork group that provides a useful way of stimulating student’s interest and making them work collaboratively.

WHY DRAMA ACTIVITIES?

promoting knowledge and attitudes for understanding the diversity of world cultures and its valueproviding our institution with new teaching materials and new strategies to build up the integration processsupporting migrant students in Italian language learning necessary for integration

BENEFITS OF DRAMA ACTIVITIES ON INTERCULTURAL EDUCATION

filling in the socio-cultural gap of migrant studentsinvolving migrant students’ families in the intercultural dialogue with the preparation of a multiethnic show to be performed at the end of the school year

Our efforts in the integration process led to a theatre performance in which students from different nationalities (Polish, Rumenian, Turkish, Ucrainian, Italian ) have brought the culture and the language of their own country on to stage through songs, poems and dances.

“ALL THE WORLD AS ONE”

A musical performed at IPSCTP “S.Pertini” in

June 2009

National dresses, furniture and painted background were made by students’ families with the help of experts.The questionnaire answered by students and families after the performance showed a higher level of awareness about the value of diversity to build up a society oriented to respect and tolerance.

The theatre performance, as a tool of intercultural dialogue, was successfulSchool ,students and families contributed to the good result of the show, each one with a different task

School : planning and financing project workStudents: collecting material and information about own culture, comparing it with partners’ ,finding out differences, accepting diversity as a valueFamilies: working on sewing dresses, building furniture, painting the stage background