Inclusive Equal Tales

<< Background >>The gender equality is one of the problems in the societies. As one of the reflections of this,inequalities in fairy tales had critical impact during children's formative years.Because of that reason we believed that fairy tales were needed to be reproduced according to the needs of the society.We identified our needs as equality and inclusiveness.We have combined these two needs with technological developments.So while we had been working on the fairy tales , we have rewritten them in today's requirements.Because fairy tales taught children how to deal with basic human conflicts, desires, and relationships in a healthy way; acquiring these skills can ultimately impact a child's health, quality of life, or even influence its values and beliefs in the future.The ultimate goal of our project was to create awareness about both gender equality and social integration by developing digital and creativity key skills with fair tales,bringing together mentally disadvantaged individuals and normally developing individuals.In this project,students diagnosed with mental disability has been experienced gender confusion in the conceptual skills included in the adaptive skills.<< Objectives >>In order to contribute to the correct and positive teaching of the concept of equality between men and women to children, we had outputs that would lead us to our goals in our projects.* Our animation film; aimed to introduce all our students who were at different mental levels to the correct gender patterns and raised awareness about this issue with fair tales, which was one of the works to be done in our project.* Writing fairy tales and make 3D graphic drawing and learning animation programs ; aimed to improve technological skills.While we had been integrating the all levels of students normally developed students had improved their skills for mentally low-developed students.<< Implementation >>With the principle of inclusivity and paying attention to the concepts of gender equality,we had presented a mini-theatre show where all participants had taken part in finding a local fairy tale from each participating country,wrote the determined tale with graphic animations suitable for the digital age,made graphic animated short films.We realized LTTs,and 1 online TPM with totally 110 participants.While working on tales all partners had a change to search their own traditional local tales.They presented them to other partners.And they showed the new rewritten form of the traditional .So all partners had a chance to investigate the differences of the characters and they understood that equality changes to country to country and to age to age.<< Results >>The biggest expected result in our project was to raise individuals who has been with their digital sufficiency, were conscious of gender equality, rejected the stereotypical roles assigned to them, and gained awareness of differencies and their own thoughts and identity.During the mobility we organized activities to raise awareness;*All the countries rewrote the traditional tales which had inequal characters with new equal characters.*All the participants write a theatre script and performed the theatre with disadvantaged students.*Participants were introduced the drawing graphic design programs to write new rewritten tales. *Participants draw characters and made digital tale ebook*Participants made animation film together