We Are Colorful
2021-1-LT01-KA220-SCH-000032445
Project description
The current complex and diverse realities in European schools in terms of students’ cultural background, economic status, and social inequalities open up a whole new field of study to address diversity, inclusion, and children’s origins (in every sense) during schooling.
Many schools have identified a lack of knowledge about cognitive, social, and emotional development processes among their professionals. The project WE ARE COLOURFUL focuses on preventing, identifying and reducing the problems that arise in classrooms due to differences between students.
We hypothesise that these differences may be associated with 4 independent but interacting dimensions:
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Learning processes and styles
- Cultural diversity, and
- Social inequality. TARGET GROUPS School teachers and educators Staff working with primary school children (aged 7-10) School education community
Project objectives
- Provide theoretical and practical instruction on cultural diversity and social inequality in the classroom as well as on developmental disorders and different learning process
- Thoroughly select psychology, pedagogic and neuroscientific data to make it comprehensive and applicable in schools by educators untrained in the area.
- Equip teachers with the necessary tools and strategies to detect and solve problem caused by cultural diversity and social disparities and differences in children’s development and learning process.
- Develop new methods that can be used for the detection of learning difficulties and implementation of solutions.
- Raise awareness of problems and difficulties that can occur in a classroom as a consequences of students diversity and the lack of training and resources of teachers to tackle them.
- Promote action plans that are centered on processes of interaction in the classroom with an inclusive approach.
- Establish international and cross sectorial cooperation through knowledge transfer and exchange of good practices.
Project Results
- Development of an online course for he school educational community “How to turn diversity into our ally” Toolkit for the detection of learning difficulties and socio-affective problems.
- Development of videos and workshops to promote cultural diversity, intellectual variability and developmental differences among students.
Project description
The current complex and diverse realities in European schools in terms of students’ cultural background, economic status, and social inequalities open up a whole new field of study to address diversity, inclusion, and children’s origins (in every sense) during schooling.
Many schools have identified a lack of knowledge about cognitive, social, and emotional development processes among their professionals. The project WE ARE COLOURFUL focuses on preventing, identifying and reducing the problems that arise in classrooms due to differences between students.
We hypothesise that these differences may be associated with 4 independent but interacting dimensions:
- Neurodevelopmental disorders
- Learning processes and styles
- Cultural diversity, and
- Social inequality. TARGET GROUPS School teachers and educators Staff working with primary school children (aged 7-10) School education community
Project Objectives
- Provide theoretical and practical instruction on cultural diversity and social inequality in the classroom as well as on developmental disorders and different learning process
- Thoroughly select psychology, pedagogic and neuroscientific data to make it comprehensive and applicable in schools by educators untrained in the area.
- Equip teachers with the necessary tools and strategies to detect and solve problem caused by cultural diversity and social disparities and differences in children’s development and learning process.
- Develop new methods that can be used for the detection of learning difficulties and implementation of solutions.
- Raise awareness of problems and difficulties that can occur in a classroom as a consequences of students diversity and the lack of training and resources of teachers to tackle them.
- Promote action plans that are centered on processes of interaction in the classroom with an inclusive approach.
- Establish international and cross sectorial cooperation through knowledge transfer and exchange of good practices.
Project Results
- Development of an online course for he school educational community “How to turn diversity into our ally” Toolkit for the detection of learning difficulties and socio-affective problems.
- Development of videos and workshops to promote cultural diversity, intellectual variability and developmental differences among students.