Project form

PROJECT TITLE

 Emigration/Immigration and Ethnic Minorities

Short Summary

The Project  development focussed on: 

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Studying  together with another European partner  the  problem of emigration and immigration, as well  as the problems of  social integration immigrants and ethnic minorities have to face, namely some of those normally  associated  to school success;

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Working  out  on  computer treatment the collected data about emigration, immigration, local school ethnical characterization and its relation to the school success.

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Drawing  conclusions from the worked out data.

 

School:        Escola Secundária Braamcamp Freire-Pontinha
Country:     Portugal, Germany
Partner schools:    

Anne-Frank Gesamtschule-Dortmund

Classes:       

Escola  Secundária Braamcamp  Freire-Pontinha: Class 6,  11th form
Anne-Frank Gesamtschule.- Dortmund : Class 10, 10th form

Project team:        Julieta Lopes,  João Carreiro, Cornelia Hein, Nikolai Schaefer
Project coordinator:          Julieta Lopes
Contact person (name, surname, e-mail address):  Julieta Lopes- julietalopes@mail.telepac.pt; Nikolai Schaefer – m-n.schaefer@t-online.de
Link to the Project:              Future School web page
Collaborative work at school:          Florinda Silva  (teacher of Portuguese)
Technological tools:         Microsoft Internet  Explorer; Microsoft Word; Microsoft Photo Editor, Microsoft Excel; HP Precision Scan LTX; Microsoft Power Point; Microsoft Outlook Express; Fax Machine.
Socrates Programme:        YES  o   NO  o
Distance Collaboration (among Partners):         YES  o   NO  o
 The distance from Portugal to Germany

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, Skanner, Printer, Fax machine, Copy machine

Personal computers, skanners and printers

  
Funds School budget

Socrates Programme School, Municipality of Odivelas, Participating teachers’ and students’ own expenses

  
Other   Internet resources  

Objectives

Overall objectives

Working together with other European Schools;
Promoting  intercultural relationships, through the knowledge of other countries, other cultures and others languages inside the EU;
Learning about other educational systems;  
Enriching  the relationship teacher-student, emphasizing team  work and knowledge sharing;
Making  use of the new technologies in an educational context .

Specific objectives

Studying   together with European partners  the  problem of emigration and immigration, as well  as the problems of  social integration immigrants and ethnic minorities have to face;
Motivating  for the  study/learning of other European languages.

Study skills

Learning  foreign languages, improving   speaking, listening and  writing skills in English;
Promoting team work;
 Using specific software .

Social skills

Sensitizing  for the values of tolerance, equality of rights and  respect for  cultural and racial differences;
 Contributing to the development of the spirit of European citizenship;
 Encouraging  the spirit of cooperation, autonomy  and participation/ intervention;

Subjects involved

Geography;History; Portuguese; English; German; New Technologies.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Duration: School year:    11 months              From:       September 2001              To: July 2002

Children worked on the Project

for ______ hours a day / a week / a month
Impossible to quantify, since it was developed as an extra-curricular activity.

Teachers  worked on the Project

for ______ hours a day / a week / a month
Impossible to quantify, since it was  considered extra-lessons work

Work has been done

in the class  /  at home
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 either in class and at home:
Following the methodology of Project Work most of it was team/group work. The project theme was divided in topics.
2) How the work has been shared among children:
The Portuguese class worked on the topics concerning the Portuguese situation, the German class worked on the topics concerning  the German situation. Information concerning the project development was shared  by  E-mail, in order to keep the project internal cohesion. During the exchange periods each partner class presented their work. 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; collaborative participation.
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 work

How

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

WORKPLAN
Activity Topics Responsible/Expected outcome When

Research work;
statistical treatment of information;
making graphics.

 

Portugal, a country of emigration

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Main Portuguese communities abroad;

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The main periods of Portuguese migration;

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The first half of the 20th Century and the flux of emigration to Brazil and USA;

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The second half of the 20th century and the flux of emigration to the developed countries of Western Europe;

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The 60’s and the 70’s and the flux of illegal emigration to France.

Emigration today

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The decrease of emigration.

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The predominance of temporary emigration.

Consequences of the emigration

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The depopulation of the inner villages;

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The ageing of the population;

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The lack of labor force;

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The change of the women’s role in the family;

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The emigrants’ money transfers.

 Portuguese partners

Text production;
Statistical maps;
 Graphics
 Power Point slides

 

October  2001 –  February 2002

 
Poetry and songs selection

Poetry and songs of emigration
 Collection of poetry and songs of emigration.

 Portuguese partners
Illustrated text production;
Power Point slides.		 October 2001 -June 2002

Research work;
statistical treatment of information; making graphics

 

Portugal a country of immigration?

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The decolonisation and the first flux of immigration;

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The coming of the Eastern Europe’s immigrants and the change in the immigration characteristics;

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The immigrant’s communities in Portugal:

Who they are;
 Where they live;
What they do.

 Portuguese partners
 

Text production;
Statistical maps;
Graphics;
Power Point slides.

 March –May  2002

Questionnaires;
 statistical treatment of information;
making graphics

 

School and ethnic minorities

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Ethnic characterization of the school population of Pontinha;

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A sociological analysis of the school success in Pontinha;

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The Portuguese and  racism.

 Portuguese partners
 

Text production;
Statistical maps;
Graphics
Power Point slides

 October 2001 – May 2002
Interviews.

Interviews with Emigrants/ Emigrants' stories

Portuguese partners
 Interviews		 October  2002 – December 2002

Research work;
statistical treatment of information;
making graphics;
 street research

 

Immigration in Dortmund
 The coming of the first immigrant miners and the birth of the first immigrant quarters;
Today’s immigrant communities in Dortmund:
Who they are;
Where they live;
How they keep their cultural identity;
Signs of their social integration;
Immigrant workers  and today’s labour world;
The impact of immigration in Dortmund’s schools
Interviews with immigrants/immigrants’ stories.

 German partners
 

Text production;
Statistical maps;
Graphics        
Power Point slides.


 

 October 2001 – May 2002
2. Students’ Exchange      

In Dortmund:

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 German partners Portuguese partners
Presentation/dissemination  material
8 -22 April, 2002
 3 - 17  May, 2002

 

PROBLEMS/BARRIERS

Due to the project high costs there were some financing difficulties.

WAYS TO OVERCOME PROBLEMS/BARRIERS

At the participating  students’ and teachers’ own expenses.

EVALUATION
Evaluation worksheets of operative objectives  
Impact on students

We can consider the result of all the shared work with Anne Frank School very positive. It allowed the students:

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to improve their communication skills in English;

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

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to get some knowledge of both native languages;

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to develop attitudes of tolerance, understanding and respect for the “other”;

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to know more about both countries, their culture, history and customs;

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

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to understand  the unifying character of the knowledge they had acquired;

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to enrich the teacher/students relationship

Feedback from parents  
Impact on teachers

The contact with  colleagues of another European school allowed:

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the exchange of enriching pedagogical experiences;

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to diversify strategies in foreign language teaching, namely exploring  potentialities offered by the  pedagogy of exchanges;

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to know more about   how to teach multicultural classes;

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to know more about other educational systems;

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to contribute to a wider European dimension of  education.

 
Other

Impact at school

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The Project, mainly through the exchange programmes was also very enriching for the school life.

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The dynamism brought by the exchange activities, the presence of foreign teachers and students at school  helped to break the routine of school life.

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It also helped to project the school image outside its walls.

OUTCOME DISSEMINATION

Wall-charts Exhibition/presentation materials  to show and disseminate the project.
Article on school/local/district magazine

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

Brochure Written presentation of the project.
Multimedia products CD with all the work on the Project done in both schools.
Exhibition

At school and  at the Odivelas Municipality School Forum.

Website School web page (in construction).
Seminar/Panel session Participation in the Odivelas Municipality School Forum.
Other Power Point  Presentation of the project

REFERENCE BOOKS

Manuais de Geografia – 10º Ano;
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);
Antologia de Poesia Açoreana – Pedro da Silveira (Ed. Sá da Costa);
Ah! Mónim  dum Corisco – Onésimo Teotónio Almeida (Gávea-Brown Publ.);
Na Noite Silenciosa – Dias de Melo (Col. Arquipélago);
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);
 Websites (S.E.F., I.N.E., other);
Other internet resources.

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