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Worlds Beyond Words

2020-1-DK01-KA105-0750082020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: DK|ES|TR|PT|HU · Grant: €51,680.97
Creativity and culturePedagogy and didacticsIntercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Objectives

Movement and music enables us to connect with ourselves and reinvent ourselves through them. Experiencing and strengthening the flow state of mind when dancing and creating music helps participants to relax, focus on a challenging yet manageable tasks and creates a good atmosphere. It helps everyone to be more calm, grounded yet attentive. In the daily practice of working with marginalized youth we can see how these benefits are key to a more relaxed environment what serves as a good base to engage in further explorative activates for the youngsters and enables a more diverse and inclusive learning environment at the same time. The objectives of the project were the following: - Promote artistic expression forms and self-knowledge to educators and youth workers in order to enrich their daily "toolbox" - Raise awareness of the importance of usage of artistic expression forms and by high level of involvement of the participants strengthen their personal competences through them - Catalyse a group of youth leaders/educators to take ownership for different project stages and parts (involving all organizations from the beginning of the project planning phase means the project is aiming to involve all partners on based on equity, on different key roles) - Strengthen cooperation between the participants and the partner organisations - Summaries the pedagogical aspect by creating a booklet based on the best methods found by the youth leaders/educators (participants of the training course) - Create a performance and perform it in the Festival Lola (Festival de Teatre d'esparreguera) in Ersparrreguera, Spain at the end of the youth exchange As a core concept, the project centered around pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity as the project corresponded to the European values in accordance with Article 2 of the Treaty on the European Union. This was an important framework for the project as it encompasses all the values what not only serving the base of the longest period of peace on the western European mainland, but also are human values what all educators need to have a good understanding of and ability to work with them as a foundation of a more equal, inclusive, diverse and nondiscriminative approach in their daily work. This project was intend to practice progressive educational principles described by John Dewey and aimed to equip youth leaders and educators (non-formal or formal) holistically about how to promote actively the aforementioned values by practicing them actively.

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