Comenius

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• COMENIUS experience in
• Preili Elementary School No1

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School partnerships

• Bilateral School Partnership
• 2007- 2009
• Multilateral School Partnership
• 2008- 2010

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Bilateral School PartnershipFriendship through
dance

• Involved two schools from
• Latvia- Preili Elementary school No1
• coordinator
• Czech Republic- Kunovice

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Our folk dance group Gaida
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Prague
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Partnerships aims

• Learning Czech language and improving English
• Intercultural dialogue
• Joint Czech/ Latvian folk dance performance

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Results

• Shared Czech and Latvian folk dance performance
  in both countries
• Learned six Czech folk dances
• Learned four Czech folk songs
• Methodological teaching aids for dance teachers
• Project journal and photo album, video
• Photo gallery

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Multilateral School PartnershipThe image of the
other 2008- 2010

• Involved five countries
• Italy- coordinator
• Slovenia
• Poland
• Lithuania
• Latvia

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Coordinators meeting in Alcamo school
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All together in Krakow
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Comenius meeting in Preili
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Aims

• Developing the ability to communicate through an
  education that aims at integration and pluralism
  in a democratic society
• Understanding differences and finding common
  values between the target culture and the
  students culture
• Creating a DVD with the cultural profiling of
  the countries involved
• Using multimedia tools
• Motivating the study of the mother tongue and
  the foreign languages .

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Outcomes

• DVD
• WIKI page
• Blog
• Survey Living in a multicultural society
• overcoming stereotypes and cultural biases

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The project blog

• The image of the other

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• experience, and we hope you liked it!
• Latvia, Preili Elementary school No1