ARMONIA - HARMONY. "Building Spaces for Inclusive Dialogue, for Participation and Creation" is a cooperation project in the context of seven European centers of primary and secondary education, where different cultures converge as a result of migrations and mixed cultures. This provokes intercultural and relation ship conflicts, induced by the fear of the unknown, rejection of the "different", with xenophobic, racial, segregation by religion, language, culture, sex ...., It is based on the need to promote joint "politically correct" measures of citizen coexistence, coexistence effectively combating social exclusion, through new forms of interaction and communication. The Added Value Is Transnational Cooperation, (European Union's educational objective), based on raising awareness of the Educational Community, as a promoter of social problems, promoting democratic internationalization. Promoting inclusion, equity, cohesion and understanding in a diverseand multicultural Europe. The objectives meet the needs detected. They are concreted in "transforming reality", with actions of joint participation, exchanging and implementing strategies and methodologies, to increase empathy, towards diversity, valuing that "the differences, unite and enrich more, that separate us": - Seek the harmony of different cultures, ideas, and thoughts in the diversity of class rooms, "different makes us unique." - Encourage empathy and social skills, to tolerante skills, Social Inclusion. - Manage positive channels of "verbal and non-verbal communication", favoring Cohesion and Understanding. - To jointly develop tools for educational intervention, in the fight against Social Exclusion. - Promote the change to discriminatory behaviors and denigrates "not correct", towards people with different qualities and characteristics, appearance, physical, sexual, ... - Provide alternatives to educational coaching (teamwork, conflict management, emotional intelligence, ...), contributing to the development of the European Space, with room for different cultures. - Encourage the responsible use of Social Networks, in a socially appropriate way from the earliest ages. Activities: - Cohesion: logo, slogan, posters, website, exhibitions, videos, language workshop ..., - Creative Project: "artand inclusive dialogue", are merged. Express with the imagination: ideas, thoughts, and feelings. - Dynamics: Emotional Intelligence and Philosophy for children, management of emotional processes in conflict resolution. - Participation: joint actions (students/citizenship), acquire new skills of relation ship creativity, and social dialogue. Common products: - Code of Courtesy of Socially Adequate Communication. - Guide to actions for the Inclusion of Different Cultures. - Intervention procedure with immigrant families, gypsies, social disadvantages..., - Improvement Plan for Conflict Mediation. - Artistic creation. - Protocol of prevention and active participation in the fight against Bullying and social exclusion. We use the methodology for constructivist projects, in fusion with Art as "cultural expression of social dialogue". - We start from the "deconstruction of forms of relation in the class rooms", we establish the "Social Construction", (respect to the different)). - We organize ourselves in six sequenced phases, in order to reach the goals proposed in a realistic and lasting way. - Proposing innovative solutions, which are projected towards educational centers and society in general. Positive impact: "leaves a mark" as itis a novel project of transnational cooperation, in its continuous transcendent reflection to improve coexistence, as a currentissue in the media. - Social: schoolswillhaveaninnovative role withactions in theenvironment, locality, region, country andEurope. - Community: spacesof inclusive dialogue, introducingnewcommunicationbehaviors in differentlanguages. - International: exchangeof "waysofdoing" betweenEuropeancenters, environments, localitiesand countries. Dissemination: oftherealizedactions: - Press, Television ..., Blog ..., - Platforms: Value, E-twinning, TwinSpace ..., Benefits: - Decreased early school leaving; - Multilingualism; - Increased use of ICT in active social life; - Values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality; - Promotion of European values: pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men; - Equality and inclusion; - Equity, compensate for inequalities by belonging to disadvantaged groups for any reason: disability, educational difficulties, economic, social ...,
HARMONY. "Building Spaces for Inclusive Dialogue, Participation and Creation" is a project promoting participation that developed across six European educational centers for Early Childhood and Primary Education, where migrant students from mixed cultures and placed converge. ⇒ Diagnosis: Detecting intercultural conflicts caused by the rejection of the "different or other" based on xenophobic or racial attitudes, segregation by religion, language, culture, sex, etc. ⇒ Objectives: Having based our objectives on the educational center’s needs, we were able to “transform reality” within them. The aim of these actions has been to increase participation and empathy towards diversity, to exchange strategies and methodologies and to acknowledge that, “differences enrich us and bring us together rather than separate us." ⇒ Activities: - Cohesion: logo, slogan, posters, exhibitions, videos, language workshop, etc. - Creative Project "Art and inclusive dialogue", used to express ideas, thoughts and feelings. - Dynamics of Philosophy for children, used to improve the management of emotional processes for conflict solving. - Develop joint actions between students and citizenship, to acquire new relationship and social dialogue skills. ⇒ Methodology The methodology used during this project has enabled the fusion of Art as a "cultural expression of social dialogue". We started from "deconstructing the ways to relate in the classroom", and then re-established the "Social Construction" (respect for the different). In addition, proposing innovative solutions towards educational centers and society in general. ⇒ Results. Some of the results achieved throughout two academic years: - Manage to create harmony within a culturally diverse classroom, by combining ideas and thoughts of the coexisting different cultures. - Promotion of empathy and social skills in order to guarantee tolerance and social inclusion. - Management of positive channels of "verbal communication" (assemblies, gatherings ...) and "nonverbal (dramatization, plastic works ...), favoring cohesion and understanding. - Development of tools and spaces for educational intervention aimed to fight against Social Exclusion. - Promote a change in discriminatory behaviors, towards people with different qualities and characteristics, appearance, physical, sexual features, etc. - Create alternatives towards educational coaching. Including teamwork, conflict management, emotional intelligence, etc. - Contribute to the development of a European Space with a multicultural approach. - Promote a responsible and socially appropriate use of social networks from an early age. - To promote “politically correct” measures for citizen coexistence and fight against social exclusion through new forms of interaction and communication in the classrooms. ⇒ Elaborated materials: - The code of courtesy for socially appropriate communication. - A guide of actions for the inclusion of different cultures. - Intervention procedure for immigrant, gypsies, and general social disadvantaged families. - An improvement plan for conflict mediation. - Showcasing the project’s work and achievements through artistic creations and exhibitions. - Protocol for prevention, together with an active participation in the fight against Bullying and Social Exclusion. ⇒ Added value: The implementation of this project benefited the transnational cooperation, which is the educational objective of the European Union, leading to qualitative and quantitative changes. - Qualitative: awareness of educational communities; management of social and cultural problems; promotion of internationalization and European values; acceptance of cultural pluralism; non-discrimination; tolerance; justice, solidarity and gender, social and cultural equality and inclusion; equity; outweigh inequalities within disadvantaged groups, such as people with disability, educational difficulties, obstacles, etc. - Quantitative: classrooms harmony improvement; responsibility towards inclusion, cohesion and understanding; decrease the number of early school-leaving; multilingualism; greater use of ICTs in the social life; greater respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality,etc. ⇒ Positive impact: The impact of this novel project work has resulted in a transcendent steady improvement of coexistence (current issue in the media), that has left a mark in different aspects: - Social: schools have an innovative role changing "ways of doing" in the environment, locality, region, country and Europe. - Community / citizen: spaces for intercultural inclusive dialogue, by introducing new communication behaviors in different languages. - International: exchange of “ways of doing” between centers, environments, locations and European countries. ⇒ Broadcast. This project has been released in press, television, blog, online platforms: Valor, Facebook, E-twinning, TwinSpace, etc. Please find link here: https://erasmusarmonia.wordpress.com