Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 63
Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------the same stories, we prove that these stories have
a magic power for all European children. Besides,
we achieved together a performance based on the
same story and a big book with our nice pictures
and stories. The pedagogical innovation of the
project was to put in value the children’s stories,
taking into account those stories known in the
universal literature and the similarities between our
own stories. Forty-seven schools were involved and
this fact gave to this project a huge European
dimension. For each of the stories we talked about
we gave tasks to our pupils: thus, the little pupils of
our team achieved drawings and the older some
texts. We had also the opportunity to show to our
partners how rich are our literatures and to talk
about the most important tellers of our countries.
The project “Children stories” was very well
integrated in our curriculum. Talking for instance
about “Ugly Duckling”, we had the opportunity to
send to our partners the transcript of the story and
the video and audio presentations in English, as
well as in Romanian. We have sent to our school
partners other Romanian stories which delighted so
many generations of children in our country, such
as: “Praslea the Brave and the Golden Apples”,
“The Little Bag with Two Pennies” or “The Goat with
Three Kids”. The pupils of “Liviu Rebreanu” School
from Mioveni Town, Romania were proud to talk to
their European friends about Ion Creanga, our
famous teller and his marvelous stories, as well as
about his well-known work: “Memories of My
Boyhood”.
Ana Tudor is a teacher of English and an eTwinning
Ambassador 2013.
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“Values of Life” - eTwinning Project 20152016
by Kostas Loukas
Introduction
In the beginning it was just the thought that the
center of education is not only teaching numbers
and words to children, but life itself. A life based on
rules, which are based on acceptable values. And
there was our title…“Values of life”.
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We realized the fact that the primary purpose of
education is not only to develop knowledge, skills,
competences and attitudes, but also to embed
fundamental values like respect, cooperation,
dialogue, peace and democracy. These values are
common in a European society in which pluralism,
tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between
women and men prevail.
In the light of the Paris Declaration on Tuesday the
17th of March 2015 on promoting citizenship and
the common values of freedom, tolerance and nondiscrimination through education, we decided to
contribute to the protection and strengthening
Europe’s spirit of freedom by embedding those
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