Aart Franken

Title of course

Open Space

Working language

All

Duration

6 hours

Expected results

·         Identifying and following own interests through taking ownership

·         Taking responsibility for one’s learning process

·         Presentation and discussion of issues which are of great interest to oneself

·         Sharing of concerns and better mutual understanding

Brief description

During Open Space there will be a chance for everyone to start any discussion, if they have passion for the topic and are willing to take responsibility for the discussion. Furthermore, everyone will be able to attend any of the discussions, which will be started during the Open Space. At the end of the session you will have experienced several discussion and many important topics will have been covered. As they say in Open Space: “Be prepared to be surprised”.

   Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard

Title of course

Base groups

Working language

All

Duration

6 hours (1 hour per day)

Expected result

Participants will:

·         Engage in self-directed and peer learning

·         Identify learning goals

·         Develop own and support others’ development of transversal attitudes skills and knowledge

·         Experience team building and plan for future support

Brief description

Here participants learn together and become familiar with applying the different principles of inclusive and cooperative learning. Almost every day, participants will meet in groups of 5 to discuss what they have learned during the day and support its members’ individual learning goals. The group’s discussions may orient participants’ experience and give a specific focus for the whole group to work on.

Groups will be multilingual. Each group is encouraged to produce one ‘social media happening'per day.

Josef Huber

Karin Steimle-Rohde

Title of course

No Facebook for Schools! Social media… Participation… Education?

Working language

English and German with simultaneous interpretation

Duration

2-3 hours

Expected results

·         Clearer ideas about the role and function of school in relation to social media.

·         Better understanding of the implications on a practical level of day-to-day teaching and learning

Brief description

A public round table discussion on the question “Social media as new forms of participation: which role for schools?” Five prominent speakers will take position on the questions and engage in an exchange.

MODERATION

Katharina Röben, Studies theatre, journalism and communication science at the Free University of Berlin. Fields of activity: Journalism, moderation, Poetry Slam, etc., Germany

GUESTS

Gianna Capello, Sociologist at the University of Palermo, Sociology of New Media and Sociology of Education, President of the Italian Association for Media Education, Italy

Norbert Hillebrecht, Teacher for politics, geography, sports, physics at a comprehensive school in Hamburg; works and experiments with web-based learning platforms, Wikis, etc. , Germany

Walter Kicherer, Advisor of the data protection commission Ministry of Education, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Juliet Lodge, Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence University of Leeds UK Member, Privacy Expert Group, Biometrics Institute London, United Kingdom

Felix Steinbrenner, Advisor for Communication and Marketing at Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Baden- Württemberg, Germany

4.      Soap Box

Josef Huber

Title of course

Soap Box

Working language

English

Duration

2.5 hours

Expected results

·         Learn about a wide range of issues participants feel strongly about

·         Express ideas in a concise and convincing manner

Brief description

Participants and facilitators have the opportunity to present a topic, which is important for them in a concise and convincing manner.

A list of speaking slots will be circulated and people enter their name and topic. They have 5 minutes to present their thoughts on the topic and to share their enthusiasm for it. After three talks the audience will have the opportunity to briefly react through questions for clarifications and brief comments.

5.      Socratic walks

Aart Franken

Title of course

Socratic Walks

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Be able to propose a topic if they strongly feel they would be willing and able to carry a Socratic conversation for the whole morning.
• Experience the benefits of different styles of education (for example walking outside compared to sitting inside).
• Talk and think about a certain topic to a greater extent than might be possible in some courses.

Brief description

Groups of 4-5 participants will gather around a participant acting as “Socrates” to explore a particular issue (s)he proposes. Different walks, topics, and routes will be proposed, in the city, the forest, and online for those who don’t walk. The walk and talk will last the whole morning.

At the end of the walk, each group will summarise the outcome of the Socratic conversation(s) on a piece of paper for display.

Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard

Title of course

What did we learn? …Evaluation

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Reflect on the progress they have made towards the development of attitudes, skills and knowledge for living and acting in diverse democratic societies
• Share their evaluation of the summer school and what learning took place for them.

Brief description

During this session we will go back to the courses of the summer school and focus on the progress participants made with regard to the transversal attitudes skills and knowledge for promoting participation.

Activities will also be geared towards evaluation and feedback on the overall summer school programme and its implementation.

Carolina Gonçalves

Alessandro Soriani

Title of course

Communicate! Foster participation

Working language

English

Duration

9 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Understand the concept of communication
• Explore communication in different forms and its impact

• Analyse the importance of communication in various social interactions
• Explore collaborative methodologies to deal with conflict escalation and transformation
• Encourage self-reflection and different forms of communication to foster participation

Brief description

This workshop aims to explore the importance of communication within social spaces (communities) to foster a participation process. How aware are we of the whole process of communication in our professional life as teachers? What is our goal (intent)? How do we deliver (input)? What is our result (impact)?

The participants will explore and find strategies that would help all to better align intent and impact so as to increase their overall efficiency as teachers.

Ferenc Arató

Title of course

How can teachers provide equal access and participation structurally? – Cooperative Learning From the Aspect of Participation

Working language

English

Duration

9 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Identify questions about equal access and participation within the classroom situations
• Learn about basic elements of cooperative learning: basic principles, and different cooperative structures
• Reflect on how competences could be developed equally based on participation of all learners
• Plan the implementation process of CL in their own practice

Brief description

This three part course is about the basics of cooperative learning from the aspect of equal access and participation. We start with the questions and needs of the participants, then have the opportunity to explore, understand, and apply CL through doing by learning and learning by doing processes. During the course we will reflect on personal, social, and cognitive competence development based on structurally guaranteed equal participation of the learners. Participants will pilot the planning process of CL implementation.

Marta Viñes Jimeno

Title of course

What has participation to do with democratic citizenship?

Working language

English

Duration

9 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

·         Explore the concept of democratic citizenship through practical application.

·         Develop the sense of belonging (community)

·         Develop a sense of responsibility to help students for becoming democratic citizens

·         Explores Core Competences of Education for Democratic Citizenship (EDC)

Brief description

This course will focus on the exploration of the relation between participation and democratic citizenship.

What is democracy about? Are we saying the same when we talk about democracy? What do we understand as democratic citizenship? Why is participation essential for good governance and therefore to the realisation of democratic societies? How can a sense of belonging be developed? How could we help students to be prepared for this age of participation? What does the concept of citizenship education mean? How can you asses your and your students’ attitudes/knowledge for democratic citizenship?

Višnja Rajić

Title of course

Exploring participation in school

Working language

English

Duration

9 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• understand the benefits of participation of all stakeholders in school
• develop the knowledge and skills to ensure participation in school
• understand the role of whole school approach in the development of student/teacher competencies for participation
• identify necessary steps to promote participation in school

Brief description

Meaningful participation in school life is of great importance for all actors of educational process. How does classroom environment ensure student participation? When does participation become manipulation? Which strategies to use in the classroom to ensure participation? How to ensure parent participation? What are the benefits of whole school approaches to participation in everyday school life? Participants will try and find answers to these and other questions.

Andria Takkidou

Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard

Title of course

Participation of the mind - A course on Ethics of participation

Working language

English

Duration

9 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Explore the concept of ethics, its evolution and workings through history.
• Analyse the moral and ethical considerations as well as the process behind obedience and relationship to authority.
• Experience the process of ethical decision-making and critical reflection in various situations.
• Understand the importance of critical thinking and questioning of our own and others’ views and beliefs and develop capacities to act in their own conscience.
• Understand the critical process of public communication and its applicability in class context through cooperative learning.

Brief description

During this workshop we will explore the role of ethics in participation by the use of thought experiments and the process of evaluation of one’s personal values. What is our moral compass? What approaches can we use for ethical reasoning when it comes to participation? Can we say that 'citizens should participate' (prescriptive statement)? How can we enhance teachers’ and learners’ capacities to confront prejudice and stereotypes by integrating ethics in the subject matters we teach in the classroom?

Alessandro Soriani

Title of course

Citizenship 2.0

Working language

English

Duration

9 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• develop their understanding of the concept of citizenship
• reflect on the importance of community within the concept of citizenship
• appreciate why the web 2.0 needs to be considered in the concept of community
• identify the competences of the “perfect citizen 2.0”
• develop skills to introduce the  topic of  online behaviour with the learners
• plan a workshop that tackles an issue of the web and stimulates the learners to be ‘good-enough citizens’ of the web
• know how to use some of the most useful web-tools

Brief description

This course will lead participants to the exploration of the concept of citizenship in different contexts and communities, especially in its web 2.0 extensions. Participants will identify the cognitive and social competences that are necessary today for being an active and participatory citizen with a particular focus on virtual social spaces. We will also reflect on the importance of treating this topic in the classroom and reflect on the participatory opportunities that come along with the web 2.0.

The final aim of the course will be helping participants in the designing process of an educational workshop that tackles the topic of online behaviour.

Andria Takkidou

Title of course

Who are I? A course on Identity and Participation

Working language

English

Duration

6 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

· Have the chance to engage in a process of self-awareness and self-reflection.

· Look into and analyse the concept of identity (cultural, digital personal, social, …).

· Explore the projection of identity in social spaces

· Explore how identity is interrelated with participation in the classroom.

· Understand the formation of new identities in social spaces.

Brief description

The theory of identity of participation locates learning as a vehicle for inclusion and for the development of new identities. The aim of this course is to lead participants on a journey of self-discovery to explore their personal identity and the image they project to others, and understand how identities are formed and projected in social spaces. It can be very important to understand the workings of social, cultural and digital dynamics on identity and their effects in the classroom and learning process.

 Višnja Rajić

Title of course

Arts and crafts

Working language

English

Duration

6 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• understand the multifaceted ways of developing participation
• develop skills and attitudes necessary for communicating effectively ideas with the aid of visual arts

• developing willingness to work and create together
• develop understanding that cooperation can prevent conflict

Brief description

The course deals with experiencing participation by making an art project. Changing our affective/cognitive side (attitudes, values and beliefs) can sometimes be very slow and difficult task, same as the change that we undergo when producing a piece of art. This course will ensure time and resources needed for participants to present their ideas of participation in a creative way. Through individual or group projects the visions of participation will take on an artistic form.

Aart Franken

Title of course

Bystanders and Participation

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Develop an understanding of the issue and the role of bystanders
• Reflect on non-participation as participation
• Learn how bystanders are able to influence their peers/surroundings
• Reflect on the role of the teacher in ensuring necessary environment for equal participation

Brief description

Students who do not participate actually influence their classroom environment and climate. During the course we will reflect on ‘bystanders’, more specifically how they are known to be important in the prevention of bullying and in which way they can play a role in creating or changing the classroom atmosphere. During the session we will explore ways teachers can help those who now act as bystanders to act in favour of ‘convivencia’ (living together in harmony) in the classroom.

Ferenc Arató

Title of course

How to enhance school development based on participation and engagement of all teachers? – Inclusive System of Education (ISE)

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Identify questions about the roadblocks of school development
• Learn basic elements of ISE and National Educational Network for Inclusion models
• Reflect on their own school needs from the aspect of ISE

·         Create a ISE based strategy draft for their school

Brief description

This course is about an institution development model that is based on the cooperative structures and equal participation of staff members in schools. This model helps single staff members, school directors, or micro-groups of innovative members to initiate, enhance, coordinate, and improve the development of everyday practice in their schools. This model helps to identify the needed development-fields, the concrete activities and supports which could help to keep the institution developmental process keep going on effectively! During the course participants will see the basic pillars and elements of this kind of participative school development.  

Pascale Mompoint-Gaillard

Josef Huber

Title of course

Teacher manifesto: The professional image and ethos of teachers

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Get acquainted with the result of the Pestalozzi conference “The professional image and ethos of teachers” (April 2014)
• Give critical feedback following their understanding of the manifesto
• Plan actions to follow up in their own professional context

Brief description

This course will focus on our vision of education and how education will address the challenges of the 21^st century. How will schools change? How will they adapt to the new epistemologies that emerging knowledge networks and social media are creating? How will they react to changed ways young people read? Should schools prepare young people for the labour market in the same way as they do today? What about personal development and preparing young people to be active citizens, will schools take up part of this responsibility? And How? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this course.

Aart Franken

Title of course

How to promote participation in my daily praxis?

Are Pestalozzi resources something for me?

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

§  Discover more about the Pestalozzi programme and Council of Europe teaching and training resources.

§  Identify and explore the value of specific teaching tools related to participation and their adaptation to their own context.

§  Design learning activities inspired by and using the Pestalozzi programme/CoE pedagogical resources.

§  Work collaboratively and creatively in an emerging community of practice.

Brief description

This course will help participants discover more about the variety of teaching and learning materials, which are specially designed to enhance participation, within the Pestalozzi Programme training units and other CoE materials. Through collaboration with peers, we will explore the rationale and practicalities of delivering the unit/activities. We will experience the benefit of team coaching and receive feedback through community learning interactions.

We will reflect on the importance of the different tools in a democratic and equitable classroom.

Carolina Gonçalves

Title of course

How to promote participation in my daily praxis?

Are Pestalozzi resources something for me?

Working language

French

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

§  Discover more about the Pestalozzi programme and Council of Europe teaching and training resources.

§  Identify and explore the value of specific teaching tools related to participation and their adaptation to their own context.

§  Design learning activities inspired by and using the Pestalozzi programme/CoE pedagogical resources.

§  Work collaboratively and creatively in an emerging community of practice.

Brief description

This course will help participants discover more about the variety of teaching and learning materials, which are specially designed to enhance participation, within the Pestalozzi Programme training units and other CoE materials. Through collaboration with peers, we will explore the rationale and practicalities of delivering the unit/activities. We will experience the benefit of team coaching and receive feedback through community learning interactions.

We will reflect on the importance of the different tools in a democratic and equitable classroom.

Marta Vines Jimeno            

Title of course

How to promote participation in my daily praxis?

Are Pestalozzi resources something for me?

Working language

German

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

§  Discover more about the Pestalozzi programme and Council of Europe teaching and training resources.

§  Identify and explore the value of specific teaching tools related to participation and their adaptation to their own context.

§  Design learning activities inspired by and using the Pestalozzi programme/CoE pedagogical resources.

§  Work collaboratively and creatively in an emerging community of practice.

Brief description

This course will help participants discover more about the variety of teaching and learning materials, which are specially designed to enhance participation, within the Pestalozzi Programme training units and other CoE materials. Through collaboration with peers, we will explore the rationale and practicalities of delivering the unit/activities. We will experience the benefit of team coaching and receive feedback through community learning interactions.

We will reflect on the importance of the different tools in a democratic and equitable classroom.

Višnja Rajić

Title of course

Purpose of education

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• understand the multifaceted and different purposes of education
• identify the purpose of education in their own context
• develop the ability to see things from different point of view
• evaluate in their own context the key purpose of education

Brief description

The course analyses the purpose of education from different perspectives (Preparation for the labour market, Preparation for life as active citizens in democratic societies; Personal development; Development and maintenance of a broad knowledge base) stressing the necessity for opportunities in educational processes that enable personal development of individuals allowing them to become citizens of the world.

Alessandro Soriani

Title of course

Storytelling and Stop Motion: a workshop for becoming storytellers and stop-motion animators

Working language

English

Duration

6 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Understand the importance of storytelling as a means to create an atmosphere of inclusion
• Reflect about the effectiveness of learning by doing and cooperative work
• Learn different techniques to invent a collective story
• Create a collective story
• Understand how stop motion animation works
• Create a collective stop motion animation

Brief description

Participatory storytelling is a creative process connected to people's negotiation and communication competences: to mediate, listen to others, give stimuli and to be open is essential in the process of crafting a story.

In this short course participants will have the chance to discover and try some of the possible techniques to stimulate the imagination of a group of people in order to invent and create a common story.

Participants will learn some of the most effective and easy-to-use tools and techniques of stop motion animation and they'll work together in producing a short animation.

Carolina Gonçalves

Title of course

Storytelling and Stop Motion

Working language

French

Duration

6 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Understand of the importance of storytelling as a means to create an atmosphere of inclusion
• Promote active participation of learners
• Reflect about the effectiveness of learning by doing and cooperative work
• Know how to produce (tools, techniques) a stop motion animation

Brief description

In this course, the participants will work with different conceptions and creativity strategies to create a common story.

The participants will explore the tools and different techniques of stop motion. At the end, the participants will produce an animated story.

Andria Takkidou

Title of course

The Island

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Experience the process of democratic decision making
• Understand democratic participation and the notion of responsibility
• Reflect on their own values
• Analyse interactions and participation in societies.
• Develop deeper socio-political understanding

Brief description

In this activity, participants create their own island. They have the chance to experience the importance and complexity of democratic decision-making and participation and reflect on their own values. What kind of social and economic structure is there in your island? What kind of political system governs your country? A challenging activity in which participants will be confronted with these and many, more questions. This activity can be adapted to different situations for children and youth.

Marta Viñes Jimeno

Title of course

The Island

Working language

German

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

·         Experience the process of democratic decision making.

·         Understand democratic participation and the notion of responsibility.

·         Reflect on their own values.

·         Identify type of interactions and participations in societies.

·         Develop deeper socio-political understanding.

Brief description

In this activity, participants create their own island. They have the chance to experience the importance of democratic decision-making and democratic participation and reflect on their own values. Thus, the course will highlight the complexity of decision-making and the democratic processes we engage in. What kind of social structure is there in your island? What type of economic system is there? What kind of political system governs your country? Does your island engage in global activities? A challenging activity in which participants will be confronted with these and many, more questions. This activity can be adapted to different situations for children and youth.

Marta Viñes Jimeno

Title of course

Call for action:  “NOTHING ABOUT ME WITHOUT ME”.

Working language

English

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Participants will:

• Reflect on the issues of power and the impact of discrimination and inequality on citizenship.
• Understand the emergence of the desire for change
• Identify the proposals of action
• Analyze how mobilisation works and its dimensions (citizens, resources, networking, etc.)
• Explore the conditions for participation

Brief description

In this course, the participants will work on self-reflecting activities to explore the distribution of resources, power and status. We will analyse social/economic justice issues regarding access to participation and explore the structural conditions for participation and the consequences of these conditions.

Through the creation of their activity to mobilise educational actors, participants will start to walk the path to action.

Carolina Gonçalves

Title of course

Call for action!

Working language

French

Duration

3 hours

Expected result

Les participants vont:
• Réfléchir sur les questions de pouvoir et l'impact de la discrimination et de l'inégalité sur la citoyenneté.
• Comprendre l'émergence du désir de changement
• Identifier les propositions d'action
• Analyser comment la mobilisation et ses dimensions fonctionnent (les citoyens, les ressources, la mise en réseau ...)
• Explorer les conditions de participation

Brief description

Dans ce cours, les participants travailleront sur ​​les activités d'autoréflexion à explorer la distribution des ressources, du pouvoir et de statut. Nous allons analyser les questions de justice sociale / économique concernant l'accès à la participation et explorer les conditions structurelles de participation et les conséquences de ces conditions.

Grâce à la création de leur activité à mobiliser les acteurs éducatifs, ils vont commencer à marcher sur le chemin de l'action.