“BILDUNG – MOTOR & THEATRICAL ASPECTS OF LIFELONG LEARNING” is an international cooperation for adult education. It's aiming towards actions and insights about "learning to learn" regarding motor and theatre methodology in social work and education. Against the background of increasing national and European tensions as well as a lack of effectiveness in the education system as shown by PISA, BILDUNG has set the goal to contribute to these fields in both a practical sense of direct-help and in a sustainable, systemic approach on an European niveau based on the diversity of methods of thematic theater and movement-methods in life long learning. The objectives of the project are: 1. The creation of a reliable quality-measure plus an understandable guidance in the social- and educational work with theater and movement forms, specifically regarding the work with people with fewer opportunities- ergo enabling a reliable quality-management for this workfield. 2. Strengthening of European cooperation in research and development. 3. To help adults with fewer opportunities to enhance their skills, self-confidence and career opportunities in several phases of the project. 4. Making a european contribution to the development of: the educational landscape, learn learning, subjectorientation, the body's role in learning, equal opportunities, intercultural learning and the benefits of theatrical methods. 5. The development of an empirically secured method- manual. 6. The development of an empirically and practically secure online method-pool with public availability. Third party institutions contribute and use this plattform further after the projects completion. 7. Organization and execution of a congress and trainings of regional and international multipliers. The number of participants vary within the project-phases and -units and totals to about 20 professionals and trainees from the partner organizations, several hundreds of regional multipliers with different professional level and more than hundred participants with fewer opportunities. The project will run for twenty month and includes three project-phases, fully documented and processed for the international public. Each phase includes five main project-units which are evenly distributed over the participating organizations.. The "Input phase" serves the collection and documentation of the methods of the individual partner organizations and the horizontal transfer of these skills to the other partners; and secondly, the development of innovative models of action which will be implemented in the next phase. In addition, regional multipliers are given the chance to participate in the method-training of the host organization. The meetings run over two and a half days at a selected venue on an average of six hours a day . BILDUNG will be continued in second innovative Application. There theproject will be started again in an Input-phase to come to the „laboratory-Phase“ and include a „Multiplier-Phase“ In the "Laboratory-phase” the findings and hypotheses of the previous phases being developed further, validated and translated into practical methodology. The focus varies greatly in terms of topic, methodology, and empirical approach. The "Multipliers- phase” at the end of the project includes a multiplier-trainings parallel conducted by the partner organization. The results of work of BILDUNG are going to be passed on at these trainings and with a BILDUNG-Congress. The project ends with a transnational conclusion-meeting in Wiesbaden. The development of the participating institutions and professionals to “think-tanks” in the subject of "motor and theatre aspects of life long learing" - which includes a solid understanding of general educational processes, subject orientation and learning dynamics is among the most important effects of BILDUNG. They will be able to multiply their knowledge holders autonomously and sustainable. In the context of the international project-units participants with fewer opportunities will be making important experiences find creative ways of self-expression and get supports in learning how to acquire new knowledge on their own. The cultural diversity is celebrated and seen as an opportunity and thus BILDUNG contributes to international understanding. The outputs of BILDUNG - a online method-pool, a manual, the multiplicator-educations and the big BILDUNG-congress - may contribute to the improvement of social help- and educational processes. Especially in consideration of the BILDUNG Congress the project results will contribute to the european debates on education and help towards a more efficient and humane education systems for all age groups. BILDUNG is going to be a vivid thematic platform for professionals from around the world and a useful key-tool for quality assurance in the social and educational work without geographical, socioeconomical or cultural limitations long after the project is completed
A central aspect of the project is to make physical exercise more sustainable. The need was based on the fact that the educational work in the long stretches of the typical educational path underestimates holistic learning and is little integrated. Mouths focused on self-efficacy in sensory and psychomotor learning methods could permeate cognitive learning. Most institutions pursue cognitive learning methods, neglecting the role of psychomotor physical development. In some cases, the ability to learn is encouraged at school, but it is often only cultivated one-sidedly and often ensures that people have a broken relationship to certain content throughout their lives, or even to learning itself. The precise selection of working methods can thus lead to creative self-expression, the recognition and naming of power structures, fun while learning, opportunities for differentiated conflict analysis and an increase in self-esteem - especially for people with increased support needs - perhaps also due to poorer access opportunities, learning disabilities or discrimination. Learning to learn has proven to be one of the most fundamental approaches to improving basic skills. - Another project goal included the training of language skills and intercultural skills of the participants. - An important detail was that the role of the body in the learning process should be clearly shown and made usable in the long term. The partners should make different contributions to this. The spectrum includes methods from formal educational work for school and business with an attempt to integrate non-formal methods. The inclusive work and the digital work supplemented, the body awareness work of other partners, rules of communication and mediation and on diversity should permeate all areas. In the application for the innovative partnership that follows this project, the following should then: - The development of intellectual outputs - a method handbook, multiplier training, a moderated online platform and an BILDUNG congress with scientific support play a central, project-designing role. In summary, BILDUNG had the goal of gathering knowledge and experience in the first step and, in the second, later step, the claim to enable subject-oriented, creativity-promoting and efficient methodology. The exemplary focus is on all people - including those with increased support needs, in order to eliminate the imbalance in learning outcomes and to create an educational repertoire that is both hurdle-free and well-founded (support offers and multiplier training) and to train multipliers in all partner countries in dealing with these methods and to promote their application to specific fields of work in order to make a contribution to scientifically based learning practice.
The additional title "Movement and theatrical aspects of lifelong learning" points to the objective of enabling international professionals to use thematic theater and movement methods in educational work in general, with an exemplary focus on people with special needs. It also wanted to define a qualitative standard using a handbook and, in an application based on this for an innovative partnership, enable an in-depth teaching and learning process to consolidate experienced educational approaches. In fact, there were many theoretical insights into pedagogical work with movement and theatrical methods. The known methods should be combined with each other in extraordinary educational situations. BILDUNG should, with regard to the current knowledge of psychomotor skills and metaphorical learning, on the one hand work out the connections and modes of action of these methods and, with the help of the various partner organisations, make them applicable to situations of formal, informal and non-formal learning. The manual should serve as a reference work for experienced professionals or as an introduction to the topic for untrained interested parties. To basis for a later continuation, two levels of thematic theater work were looked at in particular: 1. The rethinking of movement and theater methods in targeted educational programs towards an alternative understanding of education - and the cultivation of this understanding in regular educational work- To this end, an attempt was made to collect, analyze and make accessible existing methods on site. 2. The exploration of new methods and the creation of didactic examples based on movement, theater but also modern media and other - modern and traditional - cultural techniques.