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project will be set up in the first year by an international
pedagogic team after initial trials in eight schools
(two Italian, United Kingdom, Senegalese and Indian
schools) - four sets of twinned schools. It will
consist of a series of learning activities with
instructions for teachers and tutors for objectives,
methods and conditions of delivery, and school selection
criteria. Differences in the school year, teaching
programmes, country characteristics, and the appropriate
expressive and communicative languages in a variety
of contexts will be taken into consideration, thus
allowing for variation between one twinned school
pair and another. The schools will carry out their
work during the academic year through a process
of study, exchange and production activities; the
methods may include investigations, interviews,
audio, video and photo reports, drawings and free
writing. The results of the completed work will
be published on the website: www.giangukai.org.
The principal areas in which the learning team will
develop its proposed school activities are as follows:
- History–geography: comparison of the social
and cultural roles of schools in diverse parts of
the world (North–South); analysis of differences
within one country and between several countries;
past and present changes. Children will gather and
exchange their own information (through investigations,
research, interviews, etc), whilst other information
will be provided.
- Emotive–cultural: elaboration of personal
and group learning experiences through play, art
and the use of expressive language (games may be
planned and co-ordinated by the project team).
- Practical–political: analysis of the causes
of school problems and suggested proposals for change.
The pedagogic team will work almost exclusively
at distance through internet conferences. Two members
of the pedagogic team (supervisors) will also be
available during learning activities phase in order
to help to train and supervise tutors.
The second phase of the project will aim to get
30 schools (15 twinned school pairs) involved.
Proposed activities will take place within North-South
twinned school pairs; in some cases the schools
will all work together, whilst at other times they
will work in pairs or small groups. They will be
sustained and co-ordinated by tutors who will constitute
a bridge between the school and the rest of the
project staff, in particular the pedagogic team.
The schools will work exclusively at distance, communicating
via ordinary mail and e-mail. Partner NGOs on the
ground will logistically facilitate exchanges with
schools in the South.
All materials produced and exchanged between twinned
school pairs will be processed by two editorial
offices, one in an Italian school and one in a UK
school, or in a southern school with prior experience
of newsletter publishing. These editorial offices
will produce two versions of the newsletter, of
which 10.000 copies will be printed and distributed
to all children who have participated in the project,
as well as to other schools that ask for it. A children’s
delegation will deliver the newsletters to the European
Parliament; this will provide the children with
a goal and give political significance to their
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