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Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter
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Daniela Grecu has a degree in computer science
from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics,
Department of Informatics, University of Craiova,
Romania. She has been teaching for 16 years now,
she is currently a teacher at Matei Basarab
Highschool in Craiova. She has attended several
training courses through the Lifelong Learning
Programme’s Comenius and Grundtvig and now
Erasmus+. She is the organizer of two events at
county level: a county contest entitled "Quality
Education in a United Europe" and a county debate
"Education to European Standards". She has
published articles, studies, project lessons,
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eTwinning and the Competences for a
Democratic Culture - Living Together as
Equals
by Maria Teresa Rughi
The project titled “Hostel Europe” allowed a
significant reflection and debate on the urgent
theme of exchanges among individuals and broader
migration movements, which are a great challenge
in the new horizons of intercultural relationships in
Europe. We strongly believe that if young people
learn to value human dignity and human rights,
cultural diversity and democracy, then these values
will be used as the foundation for all of their choices
and actions, and they will willingly pursue their lives
in a manner that respects the dignity and human
rights of other people and the principles of
democracy.
The choice of the topic came out directly from the
students who witness a growing presence of
immigrants in their communities, who hardly find
acceptance and inclusion from the local inhabitants.
We experienced different realities linked to
migration and students had the opportunity to put
their competences of active citizenship in action. In
fact they collaboratively agreed upon proposals to
better the immigrants’ conditions, and sent these
written documents to all the local administrators of
the municipalities involved in the project.
The cross curricular topic allowed to practice
different competences. Actually every competence
has behavioural expressions, and all competent
behaviours are a product of deploying one or more
underlying competences. Behaviours are not
separate competences in themselves, but are
instead a means to assess whether or not individual
competences have been acquired, so that
behaviours themselves are the external outcomes
of applying competences to meet the demands,
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