The overall
goal of the project is to create a school environment suitable for
promoting inclusive education through art for children at risk of exclusion,
with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
Participating organisations: SiripArte (Italy), PREDIF (Spain), LAS (Latvia)
Specific objectives
- to define a framework
of useful tools for the inclusion of students at risk, BES or with disabilities
through a methodology based on education through art
- to provide educators
and teachers with knowledge, skills, and competencies to facilitate inclusive
education
- to test the
"Thinking hands" methodology in 3 different countries, laying the
foundations for the systematization of a European model
- Disseminate the
results of the project to local communities, inviting more schools to adopt the
methodology developed during the project.
The results that we intend to achieve through the
project are:
- Booklet "Thinking Hands": it is the main output of the
project. It will be a tool containing the methodology developed in the
first months of the project, starting from the analysis of the needs of
the partners and schools involved. The booklet will be dedicated to
educators and teachers and will contain the principles, objectives,
learning outcomes and possible activities to be implemented in the
classroom to promote the inclusion of students through art.
- Transnational training course for teachers and educators
- Report of the pilot action containing the results of the
experimentation of the methodology, evaluating the possible
systematization of the model at European level
- 3 events to promote the project in the 3 partner countries (Italy,
Spain, Latvia).
The
project responds to the following priorities:
- Inclusion and
diversity in all fields of education, training, youth and sport;
- Tackling learning
disadvantage, early school leaving and low proficiency in basic skills
The
main target groups of the project:
- Students with and without learning disabilities.
- Educators and teachers