From disability to visibility and excluded pupils due to any cause to active involvement and real inclusion concerning disability as different way of possibility

Erasmus+ School EducationSmall-scale partnerships in school educationID: 2022-2-RS01-KA210-SCH-000101849
EC Contribution
€60,000
Consortium Size
7 orgs
Start Year
2022
Summary

We want to achieve by implementing the project the wollowing objectives: 1) to improve education of pupils with disabilities using art and drama elements; 2) to engage pupils with disabilities wi...

Objectives

We want to achieve by implementing the project the wollowing objectives: 1) to improve education of pupils with disabilities using art and drama elements; 2) to engage pupils with disabilities with other children in completely new for them - international environment 3) to improve life skills of children with disabilities making new possibilities and methods of learning 4) to encourage parents of children with disabilities to travel despite health difficulties 5) to provide a secure and motivating environment in which children with disabilities can fully express themselves in an artistic way 6) to increase awareness about talented children with disabilities in the participants involved in the project 7) to increase aspects of inclusion, especially awareness of diversity in the participants involved in the project 8) to increase linguistic and ICT skills among the students and teachers

Activities

1) online activities between the pupils from Serbia, Italy, Macedonia and Romania. During these online activities they paint together, watching the story Crocodile (toddlers form Italy) and then painting, they also try to paint covering their eyes or using their mouth, painting without hands. 2) painting in nature using the leaves, branches, flowers, stones and everything that they found in the surrounding nature 3) painting in a historical place outside the school 4) listening to music while painting, different types of music in order to create different expressions in art works. Also we have painted emotions, each color represents one emotion and in the end we made one big carpet with all the works and put the silhouette of the human. It was understandable for children that all emotions are hidden in the human body. 5) painting in the schools using wooden eggs or spoons and decorate them 6) painting the pottery in yard of the school 7) making a mosaic picture with all works from the art workshop 8) painting the wall in the school yard 9) painting the wooden chairs while listening a stories from the book 8) different conferences organized at each partner school whose main topic was inclusion in educational systems in Europe.

Impact

The concrete outputs and other results of your project are: "Crocodile story" played in carpet theatre of students actors (UMAS Academy) with aditioonal support of audio translation in each language and also dubbed with sign language in Serbian, Greek, Romanian and Macedonian. Each version of this story we published on separate link-platform: https://fromdisabilitytovisibility.com/platforma-za-pricu/ and you could check this stories with the password: FdtVMembers With most of our workshops we strengthen inclusion by introducing children to cultural differences at the same time by creating awareness about other differences of children with developmental disabilities, as well as opportunities for communication beyond speech. In the workshops we could see the dramatic-(stage) and visual arts in the function of expressive art therapy. The online activities had a transformative effect on the Romanian and Macedonian students, enhancing their knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for collaborative art. The shift from uncertainty about language barriers and lack of awareness about blind or artists without hands who use just mouth to paint, to a strong desire for future intercultural engagement indicates a successful educational experience

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