BUILDING YOUNG STUDENTS’ 21ST CENTURY CAPACITY THROUGH SCHOOL-DRIVEN COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTIONS
(2020-1-FI01-KA201-066468)
PROJECT DURATION: 2020/12/01- 2022-11/30
Coordinated by the University of Eastern Finland, the project is missioned through practical experimentation in 5 schools from different countries to create guidance and best practice to secondary schools from across Europe wishing to engage in the process of becoming a “school as a driver of change”. The education NEEDS to give the young generation the competences, skills and capacity to live and learn and work in the globalised 21st century.
As solidly demonstrated by research and by the EU Commission secondary school needs fundamental change: from traditional classroom and teacher- oriented education to real-life based open schooling through which the young students acquire the capacity to act in society, to take initiatives and to manage constant change. In short this is called capacity to agency, capacity to be “change agents” (OECD).
TARGET GROUP
The students’ school and community peers, secondary schools, including at management level as same as students and teachers – Through personal contacts, professional networks and multiplier participation.
RESULTS
IO 01 – THE SCHOOL AS DRIVER OF CHANGE – 21ST CENTURY LEARNING FOR THE NEW YOUNG STUDENTS
Guidelines and best practice for secondary schools, teachers and community.
IO 02 – I’M A CHANGE AGENT – WHAT R U?
Video documentary co-created by the secondary school student teams.
Practical research with robust and reliable evidence of how students learn to become agents of change through their schools participating in the local and virtual community towards a global impact.