The project will be put in practice in colleges and day-care centers. Teachers, childcare workers and trainees will participate in the project. The objective is to sustainably support the development of social, intercultural and civil society specific competencies, critical thinking and also the abatement of discrimination, social exclusion and racism in an European context. Firstly, the learners will look into the subject of their own and the culture of the partner countries. With this input they will produce a documentary film about the daily routine of a childcare worker in day-care facilities in Sweden, England and Germany. In their documentary film the learners will illustrate educational work in context with social integration. Subsequently there will be a production of the following materials: a handout and teaching material for the documentary film, relevant articles and surveys, learning portfolios, a brochure about the different educational systems in early childhood, a project documentation website so that other colleges and day-care facilities can use the materials and project results. The examination of the different topics, the design of the documentary and the exchange of experiences will happen online, interactively, transnational and upon the work of all partners. The trainees will survey their values and working methods during one-week internships in the day-care facilities of the partner countries. They will not only review their own value system but also establish their language competence in a peer learning context. During the project we will also establish a network between teaching and nursery-school staff. A knowledge transfer between learning and teaching will be another result of the co-operation. A symposium with different external experts will be organized in order to establish the process.
The project was carried out in schools and kindergartens, involving educators, teachers from schools and educators undergoing training. The aim was to sustainably promote the development of social, civil society and intercultural skills, critical thinking and the fight against discrimination, exclusion and racism at European level. The learners first studied the culture of their partner countries before shooting a documentary film about the daily routine and the work of an educator in day-care centres in Sweden, England and Germany. In the documentary, the learners examined the educational work while coping with the topic of social integration. The students of the Faculty of Social Work (pupils of the Fachschule für Sozialwesen) examined their own values and working methods in a five-day internship abroad at the kindergartens of the partner countries. In addition to their own value assessment through reflective practice, the students expanded their professional language skills in a peer learning context. Within the framework of the teaching portfolio, the learners have created portfolios for their own discussion. A flyer was produced for the dissemination of the project and the documentation was recorded on the website https://rpase.wordpress.com/. In addition, common materials for the lessons were developed. The project was accompanied by the municipalities and was reported on in daily newspapers. Surveys of the participants helped to ensure that the work was on topic and well reflected. Other schools and day-care centres can use the materials or the project idea to train the learners or the educational staff as well. The website can be used, for example, to create new teaching assignments for students on specific topics. The discussion of the topics, the creation of documentation films and the exchange of results took place online, interactively, transnationally and on the basis of the joint work of all participants. During the project, teachers and educators, among others, networked and further developed the school as a training location. A specialist conference on the project’s topic with specialist contributions from external experts supported the work process and was held at the Institute for the Situation Approach (ISTA) in Berlin.