Dear colleagues
We would like to invite you to join our school (3rd Lyceum
of Nea Philadelphia in Athens
The project is called 'EUTOPIA' and is about designing a
European social utopia.
You will find a short description of the project as an
attachment and a thorough description at
- (http://eu--topia.blogspot.com
- or http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p94081 at etwinning programme).
The teacher team of our school consists of
two Classical Greek teachers, a Sociology teacher, an Art teacher, an
ICT teacher and an English teacher.
We find the idea for this project fascinating because it
involves studying interesting
literature, reflecting on the present, envisaging the future with optimistim, negotiating
ideas, planning and constructing concrete proposals.
We are also optimistic that this sort of etwinning projects
with a strictly European dimension will eventually open the road for
the continuation of Comenius partnerships, if there is any, of
course.
If your students are 17 - 21 years old and you find
this project interesting, please contact us the soonest possible
because the deadline for submission of the final products
is June 2013.
Best regards
Katerina
Fyssaki (kfyssaki@gmail.com )
Project description
Title: EUROPIA – Europe Tomorrow
Looking at the present for an improvement in
the future
This etwinning project aims at the collaboration of
students in designing and presenting a utopian
European society which best serves their needs as European citizens. The
project has been proposed by Germany as an example of how school cooperation
may foster European active citizenship in the framework of the European Year of Active Citizenship 2013.
In order to envisage and design their shared European
utopia, the participating students are
advised to study several models of utopian societies from different domains
(Philosophy, Literature, Art etc) such as Plato’s Politeia, Tomas Moore’s Utopia
and Tomasso Campanella’s City of the Sun among many others. Besides, it is recommended
that students are acquainted with the well-known dystopias (negative visions of
future cities) of Aldus Huxley, ‘Brave
New World’ and George Orwell’s ‘1984’.
Last, students could carry out research into the modern trends in city development
(utopian cities, ideal cities, educational cities, cities for children and slow
cities)
Having reflected on the proposed utopias and taking
into consideration the main aspects of
social structure (governance, justice, labour and employment, transport,
economics, education and science, health, integration and equality,
cross-cultural contact and environment), the students are going to arrive at a shared vision of a model future European
society, construct a concrete design exploiting a wide range of ICT tools (TwinSpace Forum, Document
Library, Photo Gallery, Web Content, Wiki).
The final
products can include: each student’s profile, their first drawings of a
dream city, a poster that reflects their decisions at the stage of designing, a
3D model of their Utopian City – characterized as TwinCity as well as videos.
The Greek Team
In 3rd Upper Secondary School “Miltos
Kountouras”
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