More than one million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe in 2015. Designing a real peaceful Europen society requires educating people about the social bonds holding the union together and providing an inclusive education. In the goal of achieving this, the countries having a great number of migrants and hosting many refugees (Spain, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Romania) will share a project idea of creating a unifying play focused on developing a better understanding among different cultures about the EU through working on the main five values mentioned in the Berlin Decleration; democracy, equality, respect human rights, rule of law and freedom, which will have a clear impact on participants in terms of social integration not only the migrants-refugees but all the EU young learners.Objectives and Activities:-Creating a play about the EU values and combining it with music-dances belong to different cultures to enhance the access, participation and performance of young learners including the socially disadvantaged ones (migrants-refugees) and facilitating their mental and spiritual integration into the desired European citizenship concept via having them fully engaged in all the project activities. -Developing musical knowledge and social-cultural understanding among young people and educational staff of the diversity of cultures, music, languages and European values; traditional music, dances tutorials and food court.-Breaking down the barriers of division, of hatred, of prejudice in minds about the refugees/migrants through music-Understanding the target social-cultural values represented in European society via the play, traditional music-dances-Preventing violent radicalisation by promoting common European values, fostering social integration, enhancing intercultural understanding and a sense of belonging to a community; the play-Strengthening the cooperation among schools to develop and reinforce networks; increasing the capacity to operate at transnational level, sharing and confronting ideas, practices and methods; thus increasing the European dimension of inclusive education by advanced joint cooperation; transnational learning/teaching/training activities about values, folk dances, instruments-Supporting teachers in dealing with diversified groups of learners and to adopt collaborative, innovative practices, and share knowledge and exchange experiences for equity, diversity and inclusion challenges in the learning environment; know how sessions-Supporting the students talented in acting, in music, in script writing through guiding them in creation of the play and teaching the traditional dances to their peers Finally, we would like to combine all these elements in the creation of a Musical theater show of acting the target values.Participants:About 5295 students and teachers from 5 partner schools and more than two times of this number the parents of the students will involve in the activities of the project directly or indirectiy. The main target group of our project includes pupils, students with cultural disadvantages, teachers, institutions, parents, local community of each school involved will surely learn much about their own national music background and musical instruments-dances; and the ones of other countries.Methodology:The methodology we intend to apply is based on Total physical Response and Music, which is realistic in terms of achieving our goal of facilitating social integration, inclusive education, training and launching mental integration from an early age; by following a student-centered methodology in which the students will play their own instrument, write the scripts of the play, act it out, teach/learn traditional dances, prepare project logo and design calendars, brochures, ppts and posters. They will take part in each activity with the teachers’ help and supervising.Music, Dancing, Acting, Multiple Intelligences, TPR , Problem-based learning, metacognition approaches will be used.Results-Impacts:-Products; A theatre play about the EU values, Folk Dance tutorials, Introduction to Instruments, a website, a twinspace, logo, 2 calendars, dance and food courts, ppts, brochures, posters etc. -Understanding the basic social-cultural values represented in the European society.-Raising awareness among our students about their identity as members of the European Union, and more active participation in society via promoting greater understanding and responsiveness to social, musical, linguistic and cultural diversity.-The socially-culturally disadvantaged members of our schools' communities will be engaged in school life better and integrated profoundly.-Strenghtening cooperation and exhange of good practises among partner schools.The project will be carried out as a part of school curricula and everyday teaching practice in each partner school. The Twinspace and the ACTIONN website will live on long after our project is completed.
The Actionn project partners, countries having a great number of migrants and hosting many refugees (Spain, Italy, Germany, Turkey and Romania), had an advanced cooperation in this project with tne idea of creating a unifying play focused on developing a better understanding among different cultures about the EU through working on the main five values mentioned in the Berlin Decleration; democracy, equality, respect human rights, rule of law and freedom, which have had a clear impact on the project participants in terms of social integration not only the migrants-refugees but all the EU young learners. Objectives-Activities: -We created a play about the EU values and combined it with the music and the traditional dances belong to different cultures involved in the project to enhance the access, participation and performance of young learners including the socially disadvantaged ones (migrants-refugees) and facilitating their mental and spiritual integration into the desired European citizenship concept via having them fully engaged in all the project activities. -We have developed musical knowledge and social-cultural understanding among young people and educational staff of the diversity of cultures, music, languages and European values; traditional music, dances tutorials and food court. -We had an advanced cooperation to break down the barriers of division, of hatred, of prejudice in minds about the refugees/migrants through music -Our participants have gained a better understanding of the target social-cultural values represented in European society via the play, traditional music-dances -We have contributed to prevent violent radicalisation by promoting common European values, fostering social integration, enhancing intercultural understanding and a sense of belonging to a community -We have strengthened cooperation among schools to develop and reinforce networks; the capacity to operate at transnational level, sharing and confronting ideas, practices and methods; thus increasing the European dimension of inclusive education by the advanced joint cooperation we had in the transnational LTTS about the EU values, folk dances, instruments -We have supported teachers involved in dealing with diversified groups of learners and adopting collaborative, innovative practices, and share knowledge and exchange experiences for equity, diversity and inclusion challenges in the learning environment; know how sessions -We have supported the participant students talented in acting, in music, in script writing through guiding them in creation of the play and teaching the traditional dances to their peers. We combined all the aimed objectives in the creation of a Musical theater show of, the Actionn Theatre. Participants: -About 5000 students and teachers from 5 partner schools and more than two times of this number the parents of the students involved in the activities of the project directly or indirectiy. The main target groups of our project including pupils, students with cultural disadvantages, teachers, institutions, parents, local community of each school involved have surely learned much about their own national music background and musical instruments-dances; and the ones of other countries. Methodology: -The methodology we applied was based on Total physical Response and Music, which was realistic in terms of achieving our goal of facilitating social integration, inclusive education, training and launching mental integration from an early age; by following a student-centered methodology in which the students played their own instrument, wrote the scripts of the play, acted it out, taught/learned traditional dances, prepared project logo and designed calendars, brochures, ppts and posters. They took part in each activity with the teachers’ help and supervising. Music, Dancing, Acting, Multiple Intelligences, TPR , Problem-based learning, Metacognition approaches were used. Products-Results-Impacts: -A theatre play about the EU values, Folk Dance tutorials, Introduction to Instruments, a website (https://erasmusactionn.weebly.com), a twinspace, logo, 2 calendars, dance and food courts, ppts, brochures, posters were created. -The basic social-cultural values represented in the European society have been understood better by the participants. -A raised awareness among our students about their identity as members of the European Union, and more active participation in society via promoting greater understanding and responsiveness to social, musical, linguistic and cultural diversity. -The socially-culturally disadvantaged members of our schools' communities have been engaged in school life better and integrated profoundly. -Strenghtened cooperation and exhange of good practises among partner schools. The project was carried out as a part of school life and everyday teaching practice in each partner school. Our twinspace and the Actionn website are alive and they will be updated for a long time.