More than sixty million people around the world are fleeing from war, persecution and poverty. Many who start out full of hope do not reach their destinations.The refugee crisis has grabbed attention worldwide for many reasons, but for us it is the suffering of the children caught up in this mess that really hits home. Children of all ages are leaving everything they know behind, traveling through the harshest and most terrifying situations heading to an unknown destination. Many of them have witnessed shocking sights and experienced horrors that none of us can imagine, and they are now far from home, ill, tired and scared. During the past years, the constant influx of refugees has been the cause of dramatic and fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political, economic and educational landscape of the European Union. With the rise of racial and xenophobic attitudes towards refugees accross the continent, core European values such as tolerance and solidarity came under huge pressure. For this reason, it is becoming more imperative than ever that education should rise to the challenges of today and enable students to realize their full potential as both learners and responsible citizens in the context of a diverse, multicultural changing world. Aware of the complexity of the issue, we formed a team for anErasmus+ project entitled Each Pupil is a Pigeon of Peace. The project brings together 5 schools from Poland, Turkey, Hungary and Romania with the following objectives: • To develop transversal and intercultural competencies against the backdrop of a real-life scenario in a webcomic entitled White Pigeon. It will follow the fly of an imaginary Syrian refugee called White Pigeon who has to travel across partner schools. • to awaken all participants to shared European values such as democracy, solidarity, tolerance and respect for difference by making them understand their own culture better and at the same time provide a new teaching tool to European schools. • to raise people’s awareness of the problem of the refugee crisis and how it should be handled by European citizens trying to find their identity in a changing world. • To enhance intercultural understanding and awareness of the interconnectedness of the world, citizenship education • To take advantage of the possibilities of Web 2.0 tools five different disciplines in the process, • To improve of the participants’ linguistic skills in English. During the prohect as a methodology, learning by doing approach was emphasised by the development of motivation, creativity and imagination as the means of discovering knowledge. The results of the project can be translated into a full school year course with detailed lesson plans, activities and tests to measure the tangible effects of learning.
More than sixty million people around the world are fleeing from war, persecution and poverty. Many who start out full of hope do not reach their destinations.The refugee crisis has grabbed attention worldwide for many reasons, but for us it is the suffering of the children caught up in this mess that really hits home. Children of all ages are leaving everything they know behind, traveling through the harshest and most terrifying situations heading to an unknown destination. Many of them have witnessed shocking sights and experienced horrors that none of us can imagine, and they are now far from home, ill, tired and scared. During the past years, the constant influx of refugees has been the cause of dramatic and fundamental changes in the socio-cultural, political, economic and educational landscape of the European Union. With the rise of racial and xenophobic attitudes towards refugees accross the continent, core European values such as tolerance and solidarity came under huge pressure. For this reason, it is becoming more imperative than ever that education should rise to the challenges of today and enable students to realize their full potential as both learners and responsible citizens in the context of a diverse, multicultural changing world. Aware of the complexity of the issue, we formed a team for anErasmus+ project entitled Each Pupil is a Pigeon of Peace. The project brings together 5 schools from Poland, Turkey, Hungary and Romania with the following objectives: • To develop transversal and intercultural competencies against the backdrop of a real-life scenario in a webcomic entitled White Pigeon. It will follow the fly of an imaginary Syrian refugee called White Pigeon who has to travel across partner schools. • to awaken all participants to shared European values such as democracy, solidarity, tolerance and respect for difference by making them understand their own culture better and at the same time provide a new teaching tool to European schools. • to raise people’s awareness of the problem of the refugee crisis and how it should be handled by European citizens trying to find their identity in a changing world. • To enhance intercultural understanding and awareness of the interconnectedness of the world, citizenship education • To take advantage of the possibilities of Web 2.0 tools five different disciplines in the process, • To improve of the participants’ linguistic skills in English. During the prohect as a methodology, learning by doing approach was emphasised by the development of motivation, creativity and imagination as the means of discovering knowledge. The results of the project can be translated into a full school year course with detailed lesson plans, activities and tests to measure the tangible effects of learning.