This two-year project, which is led by Parkinson Lane Community Primary School, an outstanding UK Primary School, addresses the problem of integrating migrant children in the Primary sector into their local communities. It builds a partnership of six organisations from five countries, who bring complementary expertise and experience in dealing with issues relating to the integration of migrants, citizenship education and Primary practice.
The focus of this Strategic Partnership is to innovate through cooperative practice with the aim of developing a package of Values Education at a European level in order to:
• foster social inclusion, mutual understanding and respect among young people and communities
• accelerate the integration of children of newly arrived migrants into the learning environment
• minimize the risk of disengagement, marginalisation and even violent radicalisation.
• address the objectives of the Paris Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education
• develop networking to increase transnational working and sharing of ideas.
The starting point is a study visit for to analyse best practice of the UK schools and develop a scheme of work, a training package and set of resources to be trialled in five countries before being made freely available across the EU. The partners involved represent particularly vulnerable regions, such as the Mediterranean, or challenging urban quarters.
The outputs of the project will be:
• An online platform hosting the project website, the community of interest, downloadable resources and case studies
• A model curriculum with exemplar lesson plans and resources
• A set of training modules and case studies and an online handbook to support the training
• An impact report incorporating policy recommendations
• A set of dissemination materials and seminars in 5 countries
• A final international conference to promote the curriculum, training resources and impact report
Although the lingua franca will be English, resources will also be developed in Greek, Italian, French and German.
The initial impact will be a demonstration of improved integration and adoption of European values in 13 schools in 5 countries involving 650 pupils. The project will be supported by a study which will explore the methodologies adopted, the impact, further issues arising from the trials and a set of recommendations to be fed back to the Policy makers.
The focus of this Strategic Partnership is to innovate through cooperative practice with the aim of developing a package of Values Education at a European level in order to:
• foster social inclusion, mutual understanding and respect among young people and communities
• accelerate the integration of children of newly arrived migrants into the learning environment
• minimize the risk of disengagement, marginalisation and even violent radicalisation.
• address the objectives of the Paris Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education
• develop networking to increase transnational working and sharing of ideas.
The starting point is a study visit for to analyse best practice of the UK schools and develop a scheme of work, a training package and set of resources to be trialled in five countries before being made freely available across the EU. The partners involved represent particularly vulnerable regions, such as the Mediterranean, or challenging urban quarters.
The outputs of the project will be:
• An online platform hosting the project website, the community of interest, downloadable resources and case studies
• A model curriculum with exemplar lesson plans and resources
• A set of training modules and case studies and an online handbook to support the training
• An impact report incorporating policy recommendations
• A set of dissemination materials and seminars in 5 countries
• A final international conference to promote the curriculum, training resources and impact report
Although the lingua franca will be English, resources will also be developed in Greek, Italian, French and German.
The initial impact will be a demonstration of improved integration and adoption of European values in 13 schools in 5 countries involving 650 pupils. The project will be supported by a study which will explore the methodologies adopted, the impact, further issues arising from the trials and a set of recommendations to be fed back to the Policy makers.