Play and Learn About Youth

Having to deal with difficulties facing our students in game organising and bullying, inside or outside schools, we have decided upon cooperating with educational units from abroad to discuss the issue in common.Our project, Play and Learn About Youth, will bring together educational units from five different countries. Cooperation and communication through ICT are bound to stimulate the participants’ interest and enhance teaching practices on the basis of diversity and exchange.Although the project will be officially carried out in French, we have decided to encourage communication in all languages of partner countries.It is a sad truth that students worldwide may share common needs but, at the same time, they lack interest in team work and creativity. Children foster many virtual relationships, thus facing problems in shaping their personalities. A nice way to prevent this is by discovering and playing essentially fair traditional games, where fair play becomes an advantage and develops into an interest in cooperation and participation.Exchanges through the eTwinning platform will shape the project, thus building Game Museums in each school and a CD recording of relevant poems and songs. Actions will culminate in the organisation of the Games Olympics and the Games Festival with the aim of enhancing the value of fair play and the importance of respecting the rules. Making a trip down memory lane with old traditional games will function as a time machine that will revive the eras and the societies that invented each game.All European partners unanimously agree to involve all students, regardless of their participation in mobilities. Activities have been exclusively designed in this direction.Coordinators will involve partners in designing a website, through which products will be made available to the public to celebrate diversity in theory and practice.