IPA-Thinking different is a project that brings together 10 partners, involving higher education, secondary education, primary education, nursery education, the players in the training and organization of active youth citizenship in missions.The project IPA-Thinking different rises through various inherent needs of all partners.The needs are twofold:A. The importance of developing critical thinkingB. The importance of reflection and transformation of educational activitiesSpecifically teachers from different sectors, students (future teachers), pupils and trainers will find themselves at a rate of twice a year over three years to reflect and build activities for the development of critical thinking.Training activities will have different entrances :: BelgiumCritical spirit about mental managementBulgariaCritical spirit about the methodology of suggestopedia SpainCritical thinking about the environment GermanyCritical thinking about new technologies Francecritical thinking about philosophical circlesThe innovation of this project is based on an inversion of the codes in teaching; the method is to construct activities and reflections of these activities with all the players; trainers, teachers, students and pupils. The idea is to build all these things together and to promote social emancipation through participation at the process of learning.The objectives of the project are:- Provide connections between partners and participants through partnership TwinSpace, mailing, meetings.- Build experience among participants- Try new practices - implementation- Work differently with all participants of the education- Develop critical thinking among public partners with students as an audienceThe project will end with a dissemination event as a conference with the activities that are built and the conclusions of the project.Constructed activities will be found on TwinSpace for external dissemination and will hopefully be a resource for the outside.We hope this project will help the change of teaching practices in the long run by experience and methodology. We hope that a global reflection in the partnership will be effective on critical thinking.
IPA Critical Spirit is a project that has two goals: - The importance of developing critical thinking - The importance of reflection and transformation of pedagogical actions This project brings together 9 partners from 5 different countries from the world of education: - 3 training institutes (Helmo-BE, Thomas More-BE, ICT-FR) - 2 secondary schools (Georg-Klingenberg-schule-GE, SOU Konstantin Konstantinov-BU) - 4 elementary schools (Ecole Fondamentale Libre de Chênée-BE, Ecole Sainte Thérèse-BE, Ecole Immaculée conception-FR, CEIP La Pasada-SP) The different audiences affected by this partnership were: students, teachers and trainers. At the start of this project, there is a real need for all the actors to be able to question themselves, to take a step back from the different realities at the regional, national and European levels. At a time of societal questions concerning immigration, the increased development of new technologies, climate change, and democracies that sway and/or question, it seemed important to us to allow the development of the critical spirit to all stakeholders. The whole process has been divided into two actions; - on one hand the realization of pedagogical devices elaborated during the learning and training activities between trainers, teachers, students from different institutions - on the other hand, throughout the project, the realization of a path of reflection on the evolution of one's own critical thinking through experimentation, adjustment, ... devices created and implemented within contexts different institutions All the partners met during 5 learning and training activities spread over the three years, each activity having a different entry point (thematic, methodological, others). Each receiving partner illustrated the gateway through training, field visits and observations. During the meetings the partners were invited to build devices centered on the “entry door between partners (students-teachers-trainer, different generations, different country). November 2016 Belgium: Memory Tools Mental Management "One can not develop one's critical mind without knowledge of the world ...." November 2017 Bulgaria: Methodology: suggestopedy / learning in a context "The critical spirit takes its meaning in a culture, in a societal, cultural, generational life ... Taking into account the learning and context of these are conditions for the development of critical thinking among learners... " March 2017 Spain: Thematic: Environment "Reality of the partner, this theme has met the needs and challenges of our time ..." March 2018 France: Values, methodology, project: Thinking plural - emancipation. "As we move forward, the need to question in our practices and our beliefs the notion of critical thinking around cultural and communicative objects has proved indispensable ..." November 2018 Germany Theme: New technologies "In a digital and virtual world, take the time to question all information, actions that are just a click away. A necessity ..." At the last meeting in May 2019 in Belgium, the partnership decided to structure its reflexive path and to restore it. Concretely, two times: - the first devoted to the dissemination of devices, videos, resources via conferences and workshops shared devices - the second devoted to a synthesis work accompanied by Bruno Derbaix, (Author of the book "For a civic school, live the school fully", his work is oriented towards a more sincerely citizen education in schools and elsewhere. In this fight, sociologist and philosopher, professor of religions and comparative beliefs, coach and accompanist, expert, active member of the association "The ambassadors of citizen expression". This work was done between partners and returned during an open conference by Bruno Derbaix. The result is materialized by the website: IPA-ERASMUS.WIXSITE.COM/MONSITE including built devices, traces, illustrations in the form of videos and writings. The notion of critical thinking is taken up in institutions within the various educational paths intended for learners. The teacher-trainers were able to question themselves individually and collectively about their practice, their belief to be critical of their posture in the face of a changing world, to profiles of today's students. We leave with more questions and questions ... it opens other possibilities.