TRACE – Traditional children’s stories for a common future
Duration: 01/09/2018 – 31/08/2020
Traditional children’s stories for a common future – TRACE project is focused on raising awareness of the importance of Europe’s cultural heritage through education and life-long learning, supporting skills development, social inclusion and critical thinking. New participatory and intercultural approaches to heritage, as well as educational initiatives aimed at fostering intercultural dialogue involving teachers and pupils from an early age will be promoted. The main aim is to promote and get to know European cultural heritage through traditional children stories from partners’ countries. Traditional children stories can be seen as an integral part of Europe. They express Europe’s history and influence it in return. There is an abundance of children stories in Europe, based on myths and legends, in every partner country such as Greek legends, Slavic legends, fairytales by the Grimm brothers or Hans Christian Andersen, just to name a few most famous ones. Numerous variations are based on these stories. The project aim is to show the children the value, variety and richness of European literature. Also, by promoting stories from different countries we are raising the awareness of multiculturalism.
Project coordinator:
Partners:
University of the Peloponnese, Department of social & training policy (Greece)
Association “Petit philosophy” (Croatia)
Goals:
Develop digital learning materials and tools through new and innovative educational methods
Develop actions that promote and support the effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education and training
Educate teachers and librarians to use new skills and new methodologies in working with children
Promote the European community and culture
Interconnect the work of librarians and teachers in an innovative and constructive way
Main activities:
Research of theoretical Background and traditional children stories
Research of State of Art - existence and use of traditional EU children stories in formal and non-formal education in partner’s countries
Creating workshops for developing critical thinking using TRACE stories as stimulus
Creating Teacher Guidelines for all stories (workshops)
Creating and improving of TRACE Educational Package
Creating TRACE E-Platform for traditional European children stories
Target groups:
Elementary school teachers
Children from 6 – 12 years old
Librarians
Educators
Total value of the project:
178.330,00 € (funded by the Erasmus+ K2, Croatia Agency for mobility)
Contact:
Bruno Curko (mala.filozofija@gmail.com)
