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Inclusive Education in Inter- and Multi-cultural Contexts: Fighting Marginalization through Learner-Centered Adaptive Methodologies

2019-1-RO01-KA104-0623062019Adult education staff mobilityfinalized
Countries: RO · Grant: €33,480
Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural HeritageAccess for disadvantagedInclusion - equity

Objectives

A first objective was the improvement of the museum staff capacity to communicate specific knowledge taking into consideration multicultural peculiarities. Another objective was the improvement of inclusive treatment to our end-users, through the increase of organizational openness towards persons with disabilities, socially excluded, through the promotion of social equity, the affirmation of the necessity of equal access of men and women to any opportunity, acting in a tolerant manner toward any ethnic group so that the museum may be perceived as a coherent social hub whose binder is culture. The third objective was the one of providing our staff the necessary opportunities for professional and personal development through the interaction with training providers from abroad in order to improve communication skills of our staff, so to be able to provide the adult public, particularly the disadvantaged one, qualitative experiences, and also in order to build team cohesiveness. The fourth objective was to improve the European cooperation skills, at management level, but also for the museum personnel, in order to achieve of clearer perception of the own performance in relation to similar organizations.

Background

The starting point of this project was the need identified at the level of the beneficiary organization to have the staff trained on topics of the field of inclusion and inclusive education. Museum professionals are on one side specialized in their specific field, and on the other side they need specialization in order to approach various types of beneficiaries, of end users of the cultural product that is at present museum education. This is a stringent need first of all because there are very few sociologists and psychologists working in museum environments in Romania. The field of museum education per se is rather new, the profession itself of museum educator/ pedagogue being officially recognized only few years ago, and the concrete possibilities for training in this field are rather scarce at national level. The project aimed at preparing museum specialists in order to communicate the museum message to various categories of disadvantaged public, be this represented by people in the rural environment or facing social difficulties, or persons with various conditions, reason why the personnel now asks for the accumulation and application of specific punctual knowledge, for making museums more accessible.

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