PERMANENT TERRITORIAL CENTRE FOR YOUNG AND OLDER ADULTS LEARNERS I.C.S. “I. BUTTITTA” BAGHERIA a. s. 2007 - 2008 Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 1 Project ADOPT A RIGHT AND DO NOT LEAVE IT Right to study Art. 34 Italian Constitution Art. 14 European Constitution Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 2 Beneficiaries C.T.P. Learners Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 3 Analysing formative needs * Disseminating among young/adults concepts until now ignored * Being aware to have not only rights but also duties * Understanding that the participation in active citizenship is essential to a democratic future life * Acknowledging Education is a right to better ourselves Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 4 WEAK POINTS * Low level of school attendance * Not knowledge of the subjects * Social prejudices Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 5 STRONG POINTS Asserting the social value of the right to study as a mean to contribute to the advantages of a society in continual transformation Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 6 TRANSFORMATIONS IN PROGRESS Understanding that the right to study is a mean to change men, women and the society Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 7 EXPECTED ACTIVITIES * Brain storming * Circle time * Films * Readings * Comparisons * Discussions * Posters Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 8 Objectives 1. Acknowledging that Education is a right and a duty 2. Acknowledging that Education is a foundamental benefit 3. Understanding that Education is a strategy for a sustainable development 4. Understandig the value of the lifelong learning Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 9 EQUIPMENT, TEACHING AIDS AND… SPACE * Classrooms * Video room * Books and teaching aids * Writing materials Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 10 NUCLEI OF PRIVILEGED ACKNOWLEDGE 1. Acquiring concepts of right and duty 2. Articles of Italian and European Constitution related to the right to study 3. Education as foundamental strategy for a sustainable economic and social development of our planet 4. Education for young and older adults A cura dei Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 11 TIME 1° four-month period Periodicity: twice a week Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 12 SCHOOL SUBJECTS INVOLVED * Linguistic studies * Historical and social studies * Technological studies Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 13 OUR EXPECTATIONS Learners, through the school, will know and understand as Education betters ourselves and our society Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 14 PROPOSALS Learners would have to understand the importance of longlife learning as a fundamental right to Education, factor of individual development, overcoming their preconceived ideas about the right to study To reach these proposals it is necessary: * Team work; * Everyone carries out his/her own “role”; * Common work to pursue same objectives * Everyone “confides” in the positive project action Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 15 PROCEDURE It will not easy to realize: it will go on step by step and the class will be the protagonist of the didactic action The procedure provides different phases: * Brainstorming; * Circle time; * Understanding of the concept Right/Duty throughout tets (Constitution, Laws) and informative materials; * Personal considerations by compositions; * Realization of final products. Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 16 FINAL PRODUCTS * CD on developed activities * Theme posters Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 17 EVALUTATION The assessment of the learning process will take place through report cards Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 18 Involved Team … Teachers of P.T.C. from Bagheria Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 19 Production team…… Idealization, realization, coordination and graphic work of the project edited by Proff. Miceli Angela Maria and Prof. Palmeri Tommaso Consultant teacher and translation by Prof.ssa De Luca Nunzia Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 20 “When a man and a woman know two thousands of words and the other will know only two hundreds, the last man and the last woman will be oppressed by the first one” The word makes men and women equal Children from the “725” school (Rome) Edited by Proff. Angela Maria Miceli e Tommaso Palmeri 21