WALKING THE LINE
WALKING THE LINE is one Erasmus+ project created by schools from Catalonia (Spain), Germany, Italy, Romania, and Lithuania. It stems from the educational possibilities offered by pathways, hiking trails or other outdoor activities.
In this project every school must prepare a trekking route in their own country about one historical topic. This trekking route must include exile or historical fact or any historical reason for making it. Different tasks (maps, food, drink, clothes, information) will be developed by different groups of students. All the schools will share the experience about sports and cultural/historical heritage with the partner institutions, their local communities while at the same time,practise different languages (English and national languages) and work on ICT skills about contents of hiking. Hence, the project will get our students engaged in creative, sportive, outdoors activities, partners coming from areas with deep roots of historical values, traditions; these tend to have a natural interest in pursuing creative solutions to social, economic and intercultural issues.
Our aim is to prepare, plan, and use the routes to achieve the following objectives:
1. To practice one physical activity in the natural environment, (one hiking/trekking in each country).
2. Get students involved in outdoor activities, as well as develop autonomy and respect for nature and everything around them.
3. To improve students basic skills related to new technologies and English language.
4. To increase the acquisition of healthy habits.
5. To overcome the socioeconomic disadvantage, making the integration of all students (and facing other problems like bullying or reducing early school leaving).
6. Through activities of the project, especially trekkings proposed, students can develop a deep understanding of history and answer questions about the present by engaging with the past. They have the potential to spark curiosity and to engage students with the dilemmas, choices and beliefs of people in the past.
7. Develop their sense of European citizenship.
The partnership features:
The partners of this project have experience in running European projects, all of them share the same interest in sport and physical activities, have common problems like low motivated students, bullying, integration of socially disadvantaged students, and share the same values, such as human dignity, freedom of expression, democracy, equality, through knowing our historical past.
This project about Intercultural learning through historical pathways brings together a lot of people from different European countries, who will share their cultures, experience and learn from one other, using hiking ways as the framework.
In this project every school must prepare a trekking route in their own country about one historical topic. This trekking route must include exile or historical fact or any historical reason for making it. Different tasks (maps, food, drink, clothes, information) will be developed by different groups of students. All the schools will share the experience about sports and cultural/historical heritage with the partner institutions, their local communities while at the same time,practise different languages (English and national languages) and work on ICT skills about contents of hiking. Hence, the project will get our students engaged in creative, sportive, outdoors activities, partners coming from areas with deep roots of historical values, traditions; these tend to have a natural interest in pursuing creative solutions to social, economic and intercultural issues.
Our aim is to prepare, plan, and use the routes to achieve the following objectives:
1. To practice one physical activity in the natural environment, (one hiking/trekking in each country).
2. Get students involved in outdoor activities, as well as develop autonomy and respect for nature and everything around them.
3. To improve students basic skills related to new technologies and English language.
4. To increase the acquisition of healthy habits.
5. To overcome the socioeconomic disadvantage, making the integration of all students (and facing other problems like bullying or reducing early school leaving).
6. Through activities of the project, especially trekkings proposed, students can develop a deep understanding of history and answer questions about the present by engaging with the past. They have the potential to spark curiosity and to engage students with the dilemmas, choices and beliefs of people in the past.
7. Develop their sense of European citizenship.
The partnership features:
The partners of this project have experience in running European projects, all of them share the same interest in sport and physical activities, have common problems like low motivated students, bullying, integration of socially disadvantaged students, and share the same values, such as human dignity, freedom of expression, democracy, equality, through knowing our historical past.
This project about Intercultural learning through historical pathways brings together a lot of people from different European countries, who will share their cultures, experience and learn from one other, using hiking ways as the framework.
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