Intermuse. Objectifs

Objectives

The project aims at providing teachers and museum specialists with an innovative, up-to-date and ready-to-use approach and resources for developing intercultural education activities based on the use of ICT, on the development of transnational learning partnerships and on the use of interactive and motivating pedagogical methods, within a partnership between schools and local museums.

More precisely, the objectives of the project will be:

* to develop and test within a network of four schools from different countries an innovative methodology for intercultural education based on the elaboration by pupils of a multimedia interactive game inspired by a local museum and on exchanges on this matter between partner schools
* to produce and disseminate a package of resources on DVD containing four videogames as well as resources and methodological instructions for teachers
* to promote and support the use of this methodology by other interested schools interested in promoting intercultural dialogue by working in cooperation with museums.

In this way, a complex learning process is stimulated, focused on intercultural learning, but pupils involved will also learn to communicate, orally and in written, in English, will develop their skills in using the technology and will enhance as well their social skills and abilities for cooperation and active participation in a multicultural and multilingual environment. The methodology encourages a better coordination between teachers (it relies mainly on the close cooperation between English language teacher and technology/computers teacher) and the connection of school with cultural institutions (in our case, museums) and with NGOs active in promoting intercultural dialogue.