Most of European countries have become
multicultural societies in recent years due to immigration and the
globalisation.
In many cases, students of each school
represent a number of different nationalities and language groups.
By planning and arranging learning sessions for the students in the
project, we also develop teachers' skills to teach and cooperate in
multicultural environment, where students have different ethnic
background and limited knowledge of languages.
In recent years, international
cooperation and multicultural activities has become as a part of
teaching and education. The project will give ideas and concrete
examples of international cooperation for developing local strategies
and plans. For example, national core curriculum and local curricula
are under renewal process in Finland. By developing international
cooperation by the project, we will strengthen connections between
educational strategies and actual operational activities of schools
in grass roots.
The project will focus also on
ecological diversity and the dependence of people on the nature and
natural
resources in different parts of Europe. We will learn how the
nature is exploited by man and the state of nature in different parts
of Europe. We will also learn about environmental threats, e g.
climate change and loss of biodoversity in Europe. Student workshops
will focus on using collaborative working methods developing
students’ basic skills – literacy, interpersonal and presentation
skills. Students will write and illustrate environmental
environmental stories both in their native languages and English.
They will also prepare presentations which will be presented in local
schools and regional events. As a final product of the project, we
will publish a book – Our National Parks and Habitats.
