Third Party Funds Group - Overall project
Acronym: SCHOOLS ENGAGE
Start date : 01.12.2020
End date : 30.11.2022
Website: http://schoolsengage.eu
The SCHOOLS ENGAGE project aims at developing, testing, and validating an innovative educational package for secondary education that builds on Service Learning (SL) as a pedagogical context for cultivating citizenship competences and promoting civic engagement, participation and common values. Service Learning is globally recognized among the most effective pedagogies for building responsibility towards society and fostering civic engagement. It usually concerns the engagement of students in voluntary community service projects that create mutual benefit for themselves and community. On this basis, the SCHOOLS ENGAGE project aims at:
In terms of intellectual inputs, the project will result in: i) a Service Learning teachers training programme, ii) A Schools engage online course offering a highly interactive e-learning course for enabling a larger number of teachers to become effective transmitters of SL and active citizenship education practices, iii) A SL Resource Bank offering a pool of practical resources, teaching and learning scenarios, case studies and experiential learning activities for connecting students’ academic learning with meaningful SL experiences that will contribute to their personal growth and civic engagement, and finally iv) a SL Reflection hand book to help teachers collect accurate data and perform reflective practices with their students in line with the principles of experiential learning pedagogies. It is envisioned that in the long term the projects results will contribute significantly in the introduction of SL and active citizenship education practices in secondary education which as an extension will bring a positive impact upon students willingness and competences to actively and responsibly participate in society while strengthening and cultivating their common and democratic values.