INCUSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND SEL THROUGH CINEMA

Inclusive Learning Environments and SEL Through Cinema project - CLOSE aims at spreading the use of cinema as a methodology for shaping emotional behavior, in the upper secondary school. The project will spread the methodology of using cinema as a pedagogical/educational language considering it as a powerful tool to support social inclusion, non-discriminative approaches, civic education, and dialogue at the classroom level and a wider school level.

Main activities of the project Development of a Kinokit with the critical-informative cards, and guidelines for teachers; Development of training for teachers on the use of cinematography, as evocative and narrative language, helping facing conflicts, or any kind of youth discomfort starting from the classroom and pilot it; Realization of 9 Cinemalabs at the partner country level, where students and teachers will cooperate on co-creation of short films facing social inclusion topics.

The results are Increased awareness of students and teachers on the extension and dynamics of different types of discrimination, explicit and unconscious Enhance cinema as a pedagogical language for the training of students in schools, to develop SEL competencies Empower teachers and students and support the creation of inclusive and cooperative educational contexts Acquisition by teachers, schools staff of new competencies to carry out Cinemalabs, as a stable and replicable methodology.