NL 5 - Sharmed - Shared Memories and Dialogues

newsletter - issue 5 - December 2017

SHARMED is an action-research project funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The project is coordinated by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), in partnership with the University of Suffolk (UK) and the Frederich-Schiller University of Jena (Germany). With SHARMED diversity gets to the centre of the learning experience, fostering inclusive dialogic processes, particularly with an eye to children of migrant background.
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School year 2017-18 SHARMED is back in schools...	Consortium meeting in Ipswich Last 13th November...	SHARMED in Modena On the 1st December...	SHARMED in the UK Last 4th November...

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School Year 2017-18

SHARMED is back in schools with new activities to promote innovative and inclusive teaching and learning! In SHARMED activities, students – with support from teachers and facilitators- use photographs to narrate and share their personal and family memories and build a real intercultural dialogue based on respect for diversity.
During the next months SHARMED researchers will analyse classroom activities, interview teachers and meet schools and parents to share plans and results. In the meantime the SHARMED team will start building the web archive which will make available to further and future beneficiaries the photographs, written texts and videos collected during the project.

Consortium meeting at the University of Suffolk, in Ipswich

Last 13th November 2017, the project partners met in Ipswich (UK), hosted by University of Suffolk to plan the next steps of the SHARMED project and to report on past activities and achieved results. They also analysed, together with the representative of the Education, Culture and Audiovisual Executive Agency (EACEA) in Brussels, the strong and weak points of the project as they have been highlighted in the Interim Report assessment by the appointed evaluators.

SHARMED in Modena

On the 1st December a workshop has been held in Modena to illustrate SHARMED activities and results achieved in school year 2016-17 and to present to schools and teachers those planned in 2017/18.
In Modena, 12 classes from primary schools “Cittadella” e “Gramsci” and lower high schools “Calvino” e “Marconi” have been involved in SHARMED, and so far have contributed with 622 photos taken by pupils or brought from their family albums.
On the same day the project coordinators Prof. Baraldi and Prof. Iervese from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, organised a press conference to present the project intermediate results to the local and regional media and the public at large.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

SHARMED in the UK

Last 4th November the SHARMED team from Suffolk University presented the project at the TACTYC Conference http://tactyc.org.uk/. Tactyc is the most important association for professional development of educators working with young children in the UK , but its scope reaches professionals working with children of primary school age, therefore very relevant for SHARMED. The aim of TACTYC conferences is to enable people interested in the promotion of high quality early childhood services to meet together and to share opportunities for the highest quality professional development, to offer and receive mutual support and to encourage debate and discussion.

Photo by Cel Lisboa on Unsplash

SHARMED in Germany

On December 4th the SHARMED team from Germany presented the project at a Symposium of the University of Jena and the Tsinghua University. The Chinese delegation was very interested in the project and the symposium led to some fruitful discussions.
Together with the teachers and headmasters of the schools participating in the SHARMED project, the German team collected ideas and ways of implementing SHARMED in the regular lessons. Many teachers are experimenting with SHARMED methods at the moment!

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash

Happy Christmas

The SHARMED team wishes to all teachers, students and schools peaceful and joyful winter holidays and a great start of new year 2018!

Photo by Jamie Street on Unsplash

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With SHARMED diversity gets to the centre of the learning experience, fostering inclusive didactic processes, particularly with an eye to children of migrant background. By integrating the context of each individual in the class, the pupils will be offered the opportunity to use photographs to narrate their personal and family memories.
Working with teachers, children and their parents/carers, SHARMED combines dialogue with intercultural education.
Are you a teacher, a pupil or a parent/carer?
In the Sharmed web-site there is a specific section for you. Just click here!

Partners

Università di Modena e Reggio-Emilia

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

University of Suffolk

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SHARMED (Shared Memories and Dialogues)
Call for proposals (EACEA/33/2014) - Forward-Looking Cooperation Projects 2015
Project nr. 562175-EPP-1-2015-1-IT-EPPKA3-PI-FORWARD
This project has been funded with the financial support of the European Union. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the EACEA cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.