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PROJECT TITLE

From  Dictatorship to Democracy, the Portuguese and the Polish Experiences

Short Summary
bullet In a recent past Portugal and Poland passed through a long experience of dictatorship that kept them isolated from  Democratic Europe. Although based on different ideologies and different economic systems, both regimens presented  similar aspects.
bullet In both countries the transition to democracy passed through a troubled process before reaching a definite democratic stabilization.
bullet The Project studied the transition process in both countries, focussing on its antecedents and its development.

Students also worked on a selection of poetry and songs of the resistance.

School:       

Escola Secundária Braamcamp Freire - Pontinha

Country:    

Portugal

Partner schools:    

III Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace  im. K.K. Baczynskiego, Bialystok-Poland

Classes:       

Secondary Education

Project team:       

Ann Cichocka ; Julieta Lopes;  Adam Borysiewicz; João Carreiro,

Project coordinator:         

Julieta Lopes; Ann Cichocka

Contact person (name, surname, e-mail address): 

Julieta Lopes  julietalopes@mail.telepac.pt;

 Ann Cichocka mama1960@tlen.pl

Link to the Project:             

http://www.esec-braamcamp-freire.rcts.pt/paginas/Whjatsup2-html/Jornal-html/entrada3.html.html

Collaborative work at school:         

 

Technological tools:        

Microsoft Internet  Explorer; Microsoft Word; Microsoft Photo Editor;  HP Precision Scan LTX; Microsoft Power Point; Microsoft Outlook Express; Fax Machine.

Socrates Programme:       

YES 

Distance Collaboration (among Partners):        

YES

RESOURCES

Internal (from your school)

External (outside your school)

Costs

Human

Participating teachers and students

  

 

Facilities (rooms, labs, etc)

Computer room Library Copy room

Municipality of Odivelas

 

Equipment
(PC, videorecorder, cameras...)

Computer, Scanner, Printer, Fax machine, Copy machine

Personal computers, scanners and printers

 

Funds

School budget

Socrates/Comenius Programme, participating teachers’ and students’ own expenses

 

Other

 

 

 

Objectives

Overall objectives
bullet Give the students and the teachers involved an opportunity to work together with other European schools;
bullet Give the students an opportunity to get to know other cultures, other historical and cultural realities and, at the same time, get a deeper awareness of their own history and culture;
bullet Contribute to the enlargement of the European dimension of education;

Specific objectives
bullet Study   together with the Polish partners  the  process of transition to democracy in Portugal and Poland;
bullet Motivating  for the  study/learning of other European languages.

Study skills
bullet Increase the motivation and self-confidence to communicate in other European languages;   
bullet Help the students improve their communication skills in English;                                               
bullet Develop the techniques of group/project work;

Social skills
bullet Contribute to the development of the European citizenship spirit;
Involve the school community in activities concerning European issues.

Subjects involved

bullet History; Portuguese; English; New Technologies.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Duration:

School year:    2003/2004    From:  September 2003              To: July 2004

Children worked on the Project

for ______ hours a day / a week / a month

Teachers  worked on the Project

for ______ hours a day / a week / a month

Work has been done

Work has been done both in class/school  and at home

Short description of how the Project has been carried out

1)        How the work has been organized:

·         The project theme was divided in topics;

·         The project  development followed the  methodology of  team/group work.

2)       How the work has been shared :

bullet The Portuguese  students worked on the topics concerning the Portuguese experience, the Polish students  worked on the topics concerning  the Polish experience;
bullet Information concerning the project development was shared  by  E-mail, in order to keep the project internal cohesion;
bullet During the exchange periods each partner  presented their work;
bullet The participating students were divided in groups and each group was given a different  task  within the topic  they were working on.

3)       How resources have been used/managed:

Human resources: team/cooperative work;.

Material resources: Managed in a way to make possible the project         accomplishment and allow all the intervenient students  participation, independently of their financial resources.

USE OF TECHNOLOGICAL TOOLS
Short description of how technological tools have been used

Technological tools
(videocamera/camera/digital camera/computer/Internet/scanner/printer)

Camera; video camera; digital camera; computer; internet; scanner; printer; fax machine; photocopy machine.

Users
(teachers/children/experts):

Teachers and students

Where
(at home/at school):

At school, at home and for outside reports.

How

To work on the project theme; to intercommunicate; to  make exchange  reports

WORKPLAN

Activity

Topic

Responsable/Expected outcome

When

Research work;

Computer work (Power Point Presentation).

 

From Dictatorship to Democracy

Part I

The Portuguese experience

A Salazar’s dictatorship

  1. the failure of the 1st Republic and Salazar’s rise to power,
  2. Salazar’s “Estado Novo” and its fascist ideology;
  3. The struggle  against fascism;
  4. General Delgado’s campaign;
  5. The colonial war;
  6. Marcelo Caetano’s Spring;
  7. The crisis of the authoritarian regimen;

B.  The Revolution of  April 25

1.   The popular support to

      military coup;

  1. The decolonization;
  2. The  revolutionary  process;
  3. The of democracy;
  4. The adhesion to the EU.

Part II

The Polish experience

  1. Polish October (1956);
  2. June events in Poznan (1956);
  3. December 1970;
  4. June 1976. Workers’ protest in Poland;
  5. The Round Table negotiations (1989);
  6. Poland’s  road to NATO.

 

    C. From resistance to  Liberation     

    1. Poetry of the resistance

    2. Songs of the resistance

 

 

 

 

Portuguese partners

 

Text production;

 Power Point slide

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Polish  partners
Text production;
Power Point slides

 

 

  

 

 

Portuguese and Polish  partners
Text production;
 Power Point slides

November  2003 –  April 2004

2. Students’ Exchange

In  Pontinha /Lisbon: School work on the project;
Attending lessons together;
School visits.

In Bialystok, Poland:
School work on the project;
Photo exhibition on the 25th April                                Attending lessons together;
School visits.

Project  partners
Presentation/disse

mination 

 March/April 2004

PROBLEMS/BARRIERS

Financing difficulties.

WAYS TO OVERCOME PROBLEMS/BARRIERS

At the participating  students’ and teachers’ own expenses.

 

EVALUATION

Evaluation worksheets of operative objectives

 

Feedback from students

We can consider the result of all the shared work with our Polish partners very positive. It allowed the students:

·         to improve their communication skills in English;

·         to get a better knowledge of the  theme treated in the Project;

·         to get some knowledge of their partners’  native language, country, culture, history and customs;

·         to have a better knowledge of their own cultural identity and  a broader awareness of its European dimension;

·         to enrich the teacher/students relationship.

Feedback from parents

 

Feedback from teachers

The teachers’ contact with  colleagues of another European school allowed:

bullet

to exchange of pedagogical experiences;

bullet

to diversify strategies in foreign language teaching;

bullet

 to know more about other educational systems;

bullet

to reinforce the  European dimension of  education.

         

Impact on   school life.

Other

The dynamism brought by the exchange activities, the presence of foreign teachers and students at school  helped to break the routine of school life. It also helped to improve the school image outside its walls

OUTCOME DISSEMINATION

Wall-charts

 Exhibition/presentation materials about the project theme.

Article on school/local/district magazine

 Reports/articles about the Project in the European Club Magazine, " What's Up?!" .

Brochure

 

Multimedia products

Power Point Presentation;

CD with  the work  done in both schools.

Exhibition

At school and  at the Odivelas Municipality (School Projects  Show).

Website

http://www.esec-braamcamp-freire.rcts.pt/paginas/Whjatsup2-html/Jornal-html/entrada3.html.html

Seminar/Panel session

 

Other

 

REFERENCE BOOKS

Manuais de Português;
Praça da Canção – Manuel Alegre (Ed. Centelha);
O Canto e as Armas – Manuel Alegre (Ed. Centelha);
Poemas para a Revolução – José Carlos de Vasconçelos (Diabril);
O Nosso Amargo Cancioneiro – José Viale Moutinho (Livraria Paisagem);
Cantar de Novo – José Afonso (Ed. Nova Realidade);
Canta Amigo Canta – António Macedo (Ed. do autor);
Internet resources.

I allow to publish the above information on the ECOLE website (www.ecolenet.nl) :   YES

 



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