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Last Tuesday we had online presentations on Education systems with our partners from Poland and Romania. It's always a pleasure to share our work with one another :)
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Showing posts with label Education system and citizen participation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education system and citizen participation. Show all posts
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Presentations over Skype
Last Tuesday we had online presentations on Education systems with our partners from Poland and Romania. It's always a pleasure to share our work with one another :)
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Monday, June 3, 2019
Thursday, May 30, 2019
Different Education Systems
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Lisa and Marion, our teaching assistant and European volunteer respectively, gave a presentation about their Education systems.
(By Elizaveta Stepanova)
(By Marion Dombey)
After
the presentations we were talking about similarities and differences
with our Spanish Education system. Really interesting!!
(Note:It did strike us to learn that in Russia, school schedule is from Monday to
Saturday!. 😲This would be unthinkable for us!!)
(Note:It did strike us to learn that in Russia, school schedule is from Monday to Saturday!. 😲This would be unthinkable for us!!)
Saturday, May 4, 2019
Miguel Roldán, human trafficking? No, saving lives!!
Miguel Roldán came to our school, IES La Rosaleda, in order to tell us about his story first hand.
This Spanish fireman has been accused of trafficking in people and faces 20 years in prison after saving thousands of illegal migrants in rescue operations.
In June 2017, he and his colleagues from the German NGO Jugen Rettet rescued over 5000 thousand people from dying in the Mediterranean sea, but Italian authorities seized the boat, stopped the rescue missions and started an investigation. They were accused of people smuggling and facilitating illegal immigration.
According to this brave man, it seems to be that the investigation will end in summer and if there is a trial, he hopes not, it will be at the end of the year.
Over 90 students were listening to his story, paying attention to every word and they were so quiet that you could have heard a pin drop. It caused a great impact on all of us.
“Even just one minute spent in jail for saving lives would be too much”, he told us and we can't agree more.
We are sure everything will turn out well in the end. Anyway, we wish him the best of luck. It is unbelievable to think, just even for a moment, that he could go to prison for preventing people from drowning at sea; for saving lives.
The most important thing we can do, Miguel told us, is to empathize with all these people who are escaping war and misery.
Let's help him by spreading his story and what is happening in the Mediterranean sea.
Let's help him by spreading his story and what is happening in the Mediterranean sea.
Monday, April 8, 2019
Education system and citizen participation
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Activity I – Is our Education still efficient? Spain is a country with a high rate of school dropout, particularly in Andalusia. In a technology and globalisation era it is time to test ourselves. We will analyse our Education system, the ratio of boys and girls in High schools and Vocational Training Courses, the use of technologies, the attitudes which are rewarded or those ones which are not encoraged and we will make a poster with the main conclusions.
Activity II - What is politics? If we take the classic definition of politics as a concern for public affairs, we will analyze the different forms of public participation that go beyond voting. We will take into account neighbourhood associations, NGOs, tides etc.
Activity III – Responsible consumption.
We will analyse the consumption and waste at home. How much rubbish do we throw away?.If we recycle and what our consumption habits are. Do we take sustainable consumption into account? What is most important when buying, only price and product? There are more factors we can consider. We will visit different institutions concerning fair trade shops and we will carry out a brief research on alternatives of responsible production such as fairphone.
Activity IV – Are the taxes a burden? The public money is usually seen as no one’s money. That is why it is very important to look at what we do with it. For this purpose, each country can visit the tax offices where we could know how public money is spent and how much the things that we do not pay cost, be it a bin or one night at hospital.
Activity V – Sweden will be the leader of this meeting due to the prestige of the Nordic Education system and its high level of social engagement. They will explain to us what their Education system is like, resources, spaces etc, use of taxes and employment as well as the most well-known ways of citizen participation among young people. Partners, in turn, will show the posters of the first activity.
Activity VI – Education structure.
a) Each country will draw an organization chart of its school.
b) Each school will show a simple Education System chart, age to start school, when you finish, different studies, connections between them, what measures are taken into account with students with special educational needs etc.
c) In international teams, they will analyse every Education System, advantages and disadvantages being respectful to one another.
d) They will give a presentation about their work.
e) Students, individually, can choose an Education System according to his or her aspirations that best suits his or her educational interests. They will have to justify their choice and there will be some discussion about it.
Activity VIII – Citizen Participation.
Belonging to a society means that you have to participate in it directly or indirectly. Teachers from every country will look for a non profit organization which tells them about its social activity, its aims, goals and problems, both legal and economic and social.
a) They will seek any kind of organization that best suits their characteristics and ideals.
b) In international groups they will choose the most relevant ones and will talk about how to become an active member.
c) They will say which organization they are most interested in, giving reasons for it.
d) If possible, we would visit a non profit organization or one of its members will be invited to explain its activities to us.
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Project activities
We are going to work on different issues such as language, family, religion, education, gastronomy, politics, climate, customs, traditions, lifestyle, music, art etc organized into five main topics for study and research:
1- Festivals and traditions. We will learn about the different artistic and cultural manifestations as well as the customs of the different countries. It is impossible to deny the influence of culture in our way of thinking and that’s why we want to work on them, to get to know about different festivities, their origins and the similarities among the countries.
2. Prejudices and stereotypes. What do we think about ourselves and about the others? Is it real? How do they affect our attitude towards immigrants? We will also learn about the others and discover the contribution of foreign cultures to our own ones.
3. Globalization and different lifestyles. We want to analyse how globalization is affecting our way of living and we will see advantages and disadvantages. Are we losing our national identity because of globalization?. We will study about the use of the internet, social networks, mobile phones, Mass Media and so on.
4- Role of women. We will study the traditional roles given to men and women in the different countries and the development of the role of women in the last century. We will pay special attention to all the messages abot women that our culture transmits us through music, cinema etc and we will discuss about equality between men and women and gender violence.
5. Education system and citizen participation. We will compare our different education systems and the different ways to participate as critical citizens in our society.
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