We have ten Students with Diabilities (S-D) in our school and sometimes there are problems between them and healty students. To understand the perception of S-D among the healty ones and their parents we carried out questionnaire. The results showed us the social exclusion of S-D. So we decided to built a project where in our ten S-D and the rest 961 students and their parents come togother to know each other have fun to contribute the nation to change its negative attutude towards people with disabilties positivly and the diminishing of social exclusion thus the increasing of social inclusion. S-D and their parents, the other students and their parents and the school staff will take part in the project. The theatre will be staged in each mobility. The number of the partecipants are, Turkey 9, Poland 9, Latvia 9 and Romania 7 for each mobility. We will use PPP(Presentation, practice and production) methods to cary out our project. This is one of the most beneticial methods in teaching. The very firs activities will be about informing and knowing each other. P1- To inform the healty students about the S-D. S-Ds will visit the other classes with their teachers, a specialist will inform the parents and healty students will watch moovies about the peole with disabilities. Nex activities will be enjoyble ones where they create, disign, put into proctice and have fun together. P2-Previous scientific studies on this subject show that enjoyble activities that S-D take part in together with healty students are very importand for them. These kind of activities help S-D's integration to the society and their environments. Also these activities are importand for making friends and for the incresing of social inclusiong. As the result of these activities social naturel interaction increases and the filing of lonelines decreases and the peer friendship gets stronger. The activities we are going to do; Coloring t-shirts Disigning new year cards Coloring the smoot stones Step dance Going on a picnic Kşte fast Children's play fast Going to puplic play grounds together Planting trees Visiting zoo Watching moovies Drawing a picture ' My School Mate' Group meetings-parents will share their experiences Making a short stop motion animation film about inclusion Drawing a picture 'My Dear Fried' Staging a play about social exclusion/inclusion As the crux of activities both groups will play a theatre where in theyb will rehearse and have fun together. We consider that the importance of drama and performing arts in education is significant. Performing at the theatre students gain important life skills, which will be necessary for integration into the society. Through creative expression students learn to comprehend our world better. It builds confidence which benefits public speaking opportunities. The talent that students discover through the Arts can form habits which transcend all areas of study. Performing for an audience teaches students to trust their ideas and abilities. This confidence will apply in nearly every aspect of their future. Acting roles from different situations, time periods, and cultures promotes empathy and tolerance for others. Firs part of play will show the negative attutude towards people with disabilities. The second part will show the positive attudtude and tell about the social inclusion. This study will contrubute the nation to have a positive attude towards people with disabilies and the psychogical and social development of people with disabilities. At the end of our project we try to increase the number of healty students and their parents who are aware of people with disabilities, have the knowledge about them, incontact with them and accept and respect them as they are.
According to OECD and EU data, 15 percent of the world population is disabled and at a disadvantage compared to others. When we asked the teacher of the special needs class in our school about why special needs students (SNS) do not go on break at the same time with the rest of the students, they replied that SNS can be triggered by fast movement and loud noises, adding that other students can be afraid of special needs students and often bother them. We developed our project in order to come up with a solution to this issue. We conducted a survey to evaluate the opinions of the parents on SNS. Our observations of students and the results of parent surveys revealed a higher level of negative attitude towards SNS than anticipated. Our goal with this project was to create a positive change in attitude towards SNS at our school and in our local area. Objectives: Our goal was to help change negative attitudes towards disabled people to positive, to decrease the social exclusion of the disabled while increasing their social inclusion, at the level of primary education. What we have done to achieve our goal: 1. Introducing students and parents to special needs children: SNS were accompanied by their teacher to visit the other classrooms. Students from other classrooms were informed about SNS and their disabilities. Classrooms were provided with story books containing information and success stories about people with disabilities, which the students were encouraged to read. Specialists were invited to school to provide further information to the parents and students on the subject of disability. 2. Showing that disabled people can be productive: Visits were conducted to establishments providing vocational training to SNS. Participants learned how to produce items such as galoshes, wood painting, etc. An interview and signing day was held with 12-year-old disabled author KeremBaşaran. 3. Friends outside school borders: *T-shirt painting *Making new year cards *Painting beach pebbles *Picnic *Kite festival *Children’s games festival *Going to public playgrounds together *Planting trees *Trip to the zoo *‘Understanding my friend’ themed painting workshop *Group meetings for SNS parents and other parents *Making an animated short film *Performing social exclusion themed play *Trips, games, races and other cultural activities to help mingle SNS with others. *Step dance performance planned for 23 April couldn’t happen due to Covid. 4. Children who can approach SNS: Children got to meet and interact in events held in and out of school. They got over their mutual prejudices and fears. Friendships created through the process continued in and out of school space. 5. Other parents interacting with SNS parents: All parents were required to join the events of the project, leading them to get to know and understand each other. Parents of both groups were made to interact. 6. Short film: We made a short film from the pictures taken throughout the project and put it on YouTube. 7. Play: The students and parents from both groups worked on and performed a theater play on the social struggles of disabled people written by our special needs teacher. The play was performed on the biggest stage of Izmir to participants from other local schools. It continued being performed in the school stage for local people. All performers got on stage at curtain call to sing “We are the World”. All project partners performed this play in their own countries and languages. The recording of the play was shown in the virtual Poland meeting due to Covid. 8. eTwinning project: We published our project, its events, and results on the eTwinning platform. Outcomes: The target group’s attitudes towards SNS were evaluated in “before-after” format by asking the students to draw pictures and conducting surveys with the parents. It has been observed that while SNS were mostly lonely and unhappy in their “before” drawings, “after” drawings showed them playing happily with friends. The results of the parent surveys also revealed a positive change in their attitudes towards SNS. Long-term benefits: Education is the achievement of terminal behavior. This achievement should occur in early ages. In our project, we have observed the possibility of a positive change in the students’ attitude through education. Such a change will likely help increase social awareness about and social inclusion of disabled people in the long term, which will lead them to have equal conditions, and rights and status in society. Disabled people with the opportunity to improve themselves will be able to prove themselves as equals financially, artistically, and athletically. Our women’s goalball theme winning gold medal in the 2021 Paralympic Games is an example of the possibility of achievement for disabled people.