Project Description
The partners selected the topic “cultural habits” (festivities, dances, handicrafts, ) because these are related to everyday life, they reflect the way of life in a country and give explanations and answers for the way of thinking and the behaviour of inhabitants in certain situations or in certain contexts.
Traditions and their observance rule years and months. They have a direct impact on individuals and on the rythm of their life.They build a life experience shared by everyone. They are present everywhere and offer a lot of possibilities to exchange experiences and opinions, to communicate but also to learn about ourselves and the others.
Every culture and country has cultural events and traditions like celebrations, festivities, dances, foods, handicrafts…. These events bring people together around important themes of their culture and it is an interesting way of spreading informal learning about culture, traditions, citizenship, national and local festivities and more.
A) The objectives are
for the learners and trainers
- Build tolerance
- Improve intercultural communication and understanding
- Improve intercultural dialogue
- Improve language skills
- Improve social skills
- Value cultural heritage
- Share common understandings and experiences between partners and participants
- Raise awareness of cultural diversity and commonality / similarities within Europe
- Improve integration and social inclusion
or the trainers and the partners
- Learn informally in course of the mobilities news cultural and traditional backgrounds and habits
- Exchange knowledge and experience between the partners
- Share good practices
- Produce didactical materials on informal learning and cultural habits
- Learn/Teach how to use materials
B) Subjects or problems to address
- Address isolation and promote social inclusion
- Fight against misunderstanding/stereotype between different cultures
- Develop integrative learning by the experience and the exchange of practices
- Promote sensibility to perceive non verbal communication
- Learn about your own culture and other cultures while using the foreing language to communicate and exchange ideas
Poster of Cultural Mirrors
