Activities - Contributors
Erasmus believes in students growing, developing and bonding outside of the classroom. Here are our school's Students Against Violence Activities and list of collaborating schools.
Meetings
Participants
Abstract
We live in an interdependent and globalized world and the world has become less peaceful. Collectively, we face a range of challenges: inequality, poverty, racial and religious intolerance, discrimination, violent extremism, migrant crisis and conflicts.
The future will pose new issues that we cannot yet predict but we should prepare our future generations to face these challenges with the knowledge and skills provided by our global learning commitment. In order to bring about change we need to learn about the challenges we face, our interdependence and our power to positively effect change and contribute to the world.
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One of the biggest problems in our society is violence, especially violence against children. It cuts across boundaries of geographies race class, religion, culture. The Convention on the Rights of the Child forms an international basis for ensuring the rights and protection of children. Yet, in every country of the world, there are children who continue to fear and experience violence. Education is a fundamental right to each and every child. Education is crucial for children’s development, enabling them to cultivate their creative talents and critical thinking, gain life skills, develop social relations, and grow with dignity, confidence and self-esteem as individuals. It has a unique potential to generate an environment where attitudes condoning violence can be changed and non-violent behavior can be learned.
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Schools can break patterns of violence and provide skills to communicate, to negotiate and support peaceful solutions to conflicts. Schools offer children the possibility of learning and internalizing values of solidarity, tolerance and respect, and they serve as important resources for the promotion of non-violence and for overcoming tension and mediating conflicts, among pupils and staff, and also beyond, in the wider community.
About The Project
For many children, the school environment represents a very different universe, where they may be exposed to violence. They experience violence in many forms. Playground fighting, verbal abuse, intimidation, humiliation, corporal punishment, sexual abuse, gang violence, or other forms of cruel and humiliating treatment are some common expressions of this phenomenon. The negative impact of violence in schools goes beyond the children who are directly affected by it. It touches the lives of those who witness it, creating an atmosphere of anxiety and insecurity incompatible with learning. The project will be a contribution to raise awareness, to foster knowledge and prevent and address violence against children, to mobilize decisive action to accelerate progress in violent prevention and elimination, to build equal opportunities and respect diversity in our society, in our community, in our schools.
Aims
The project aims also to promote values, attitudes and practices relating to openness, respect and appreciation for people and cultures that are foreign to the participants. An opportunity to think beyond national borders and learn to take action; to promote a wide range of skills and competences such as intercultural competence, empathy, commitment, solidarity, teamwork, self-management, conflict management, foreign languages, ICT skills, presentation skills, independent, self-directed learning, active participation. To promote innovation in education, lifelong learning and enhance international dimension. Our goal is to develop learner’s ability to communicate globally with a highly diverse range of people, be global citizens, active citizens in a way of thinking and behaving, promote peace and care about the future of this world. We believe that we can make a difference!
Work Process
Posters about partners and project aims; information and photos about the partner schools, their place of living, country.
Questionnaires for evaluation.
Questionnaires concerning violence at home, school, community.
Project Logo
Website / blogs
We envisage tangible and intangible results from our project work.
The tangible results:
Facebook of the project.
Peace and Friendship Greeting Cards.
Project Mascot.
Power Point presentations about the project meetings and topics.
DVD with the project activities and results.
Evaluation Reports.
Project reports.
Events- school concert with partners, mini Olympic games with partners, visits
Art and photo exhibitions together with partners with students drawings and photos on the topics of the project - children rights, peace, nonviolence; “What makes my country a great place to live without violence?”
Story Quilting series about violence experience, refugees stories about their life and difficulties in the project countries.
Expected Results
Improved learning in the relevant subject areas.
New content learned by the participants in the project /Acquired knowledge and experience on the project topic.
Positive change, inclusion, improved intercultural competence, confidence in themselves and their ability, more knowledgeable about the partner countries, new and improved skills.
Student behavior and attitude change in the following ways: expressed less physical violence; expressed less verbal violence; increased openness to the strange and different; ability to view the world from different perspectives; increased feelings of an ability to change his/her environment; increased feelings of belonging; increased readiness to undertake responsibility; sensitivity to the problems of others; readiness to accept a role of leadership; development of self-discipline, inner calm and concentration.