THREE COHERENT WORK AREAS Poetry, environmental and media education are part of the curriculum in primary school. Our project links these three areas. The activities around poetry are designed so that students, but also their families, change their behavior, consumption habits and lifestyle. CO-CONSTRUCTION To develop new educational practices in ICT literacy, we encourage cooperation between teachers and journalists, actors from professional universes who are not used to collaborating with each other. Co-construction leads to actions where everyone acts according to their skills, their missions, their practices. Teachers do not become journalists. Reporters do not improvise themselves as educators. FEEL EUROPEAN The partner establishments all plan to open classes to Europe. This is an objective of the European school. Rue de Littré, in Paris, the school has been involved for several years in the implementation of artistic and scientific projects with various cultural structures. In Romania, it is an opportunity in the context of learning French as a foreign language, to be in contact with the French-speaking world.
MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY IN PRIMARY The very rapid evolution of our media environment requires the development of media and information literacy. Primary school helps lay the first milestones for this learning, and more primary education teachers want to integrate it into their teaching. Our proposal accompanies them in the development of these key skills. EXPERTISE TO DISSEMINATE IN EUROPE In France, ICT (Information and Communication Technology) literacy is included in the “law of refoundation of the school” and prepares the younger generation for the challenges of our digital universe. There has also been the “Center for Media and Information Education” (CLEMI) since the 1980s. Expertise in this area has developed. This is also the case in Belgium, but not in other European countries such as Romania, although the needs are identical. POETRY TO RAISING AWARENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES The second pillar of the project is raising awareness among our beneficiaries of environmental issues and the fight against global warming. We use poetry, and that of the Belgian poet Maurice CARÊME who uses the theme of nature in his poetry.