15-16 year old students from Denmark, Finland and Lithuania work on a project in
Global Education. This year our theme is “Rich in Diversity”. We will create an ejournal where students publish articles on various topics in the field of Global Education. You can read our ejournal at www.ejournal.fi/moi Last year our theme was “Small Things – Big Issues” – you will find our articles from last year also in Moi under 2009-2010. Teacher blog from last year can be found in http://smallthingsbigissues.wordpress.com
Pääskytie school: project outline Global Education course
RICH IN DIVERSITY 2010-2011
- Students from Denmark, Lithuania and Finland create articles about their environment and Global Warming into EJournal MOI http://www.ejournal.fi/moi
- Our project is funded by Nordplus Junior http://www.nordplusonline.org/
- We found each other in the eTwinning pages http://www.etwinning.net
- In 2009 Pääskytie school introduced a new elective course for ninth graders called Global Education. Those students who want to be involved in this project can enroll to this course. This year we have sixteen participants.
- Pääskytie school has appointed three teachers Annika Ruohonen (English), Titta Suvanto (Arts) and Sanna Jouppila (Biology/Geography, on maternity leave – substituted by Elina Puolakka-Aarikka) to be in charge of the course in the school term 2010-2011.
- Partner in Denmark: Ahlmann-Skolen, Sønderborg http://www.ahlmann-skolen.dk
- Partner in Lithuania: Martyno Jankaus pagrindine mokykla, Šilutė http://www.mjankus.silute.lm.lt/
- Previous art projects in Pääskytie school: http://www.peda.net/veraja/porvoo/paaskytienkoulu/oppiaineet/kuvataide
- Other international projects in Pääskytie school:
- India co-operation:
www.ejournal.fi/finnindia06
www.ejournal.fi/finnindia04b
Spandan youth summit and its blog
- English Club
- Mesta (in Swedish)
The OBJECTIVES of our course GLOBAL EDUCATION:
FOREIGN CULTURES
- getting to know Lithuania and Denmark, the environment, history and geography in the Baltic Sea area
- promoting tolerance
- promoting social skills
- making new friends
ENVIRONMENT and GLOBAL AWARENESS
- increasing environmental and global awareness
- learning to follow the news
- learning to be an active citizen (learning to take a stand in the society)
- coming to terms with sustainable development
- learning to take responsibility for one’s actions
LANGUAGE
- promoting language skills
ART
- art, esthetics and feelings incorporated with studies
- promoting the use of images in expressing oneself
INTERNET
- promoting media skills and media literacy
FEELINGS
- having fun learning and traveling
The objectives of Nordplus Framework Programme:
- To promote Nordic languages and culture and mutual Nordic-Baltic linguistic and cultural understanding;
- To contribute to the development of quality and innovation in the educational systems for life-long learning in the participating countries by means of educational cooperation, development projects, exchanges and networking;
- To support, develop, draw benefit from and spread innovative products and processes in education through systematic exchange of experiences and best practice;
- To strengthen and develop Nordic educational cooperation and contribute to the establishment of a Nordic-Baltic educational area.
The Nordplus Framework Programme offers financial support to a variety of educational cooperation between partners in the area of lifelong learning from the eight participating countries in the Baltic and Nordic regions.
Only participants from the participating countries (Denmark – including Greenland and Faeroe Islands -, Estonia, Finland – including Åland -, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) are eligible for financial support from Nordplus.
