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Project method

Short Description
item 7 Methods used in vocational training* applied Classification of training methods (Valentina Vassileva) The main idea of the project method is to set up a task related to solving a real problem that needs to be performed by a group of people within a certain period of time. Learning through a project method involves practical work in the form of a purposeful, time-limited work. During the different phases of the project, participants are encouraged to accumulate various knowledge, skills and abilities. Linking learning to action in fulfilling a specific task aims at mastering professional competence, including a social one.

A participatory-oriented method applied to accumulate various knowledge, skills and abilities of the participants.

Step 1: Appointing of instructors, selection of students & sources of information.

Step 2: Training on application of a Methodology for research, identification and addressing of deficits in communication between generations.

Step 3: Research of publicly available information.

Step 4: Oral history recording and interviews (family stories).

Step 5: Adapt, editing and translation of stories for the printing of “Knowledge of Generations”  (family stories).

Step 6: Identification and description of “new” unknown words for both generations.

Step 7: Preparation of “Vocabulary of Generations”. Step 8: Organize Festival of Generations to demonstrate results and effects.

Pedagogical Information

Developed Methodology in English for research of identification and addressing of deficits of communication between generations. The students developed and practiced their social and transversal skills, such as the ability to learn and initiative-taking. The students' knowledge of own language was enhanced. Students and elderly accumulated the unique experience of learning from the experience of others.

European Dimension

Intergenerational learning, Solidarity, Heritage, Culture

Applied in projects

Festival of Generations

Two editions of the “Festival of Generations” were organized and hold in Luleburgaz, Turkey and Burgas, Bulgaria. During the two day festival information on cross-border level has been exchanged about the contemporary significance of knowledge and continuity between generations, language evolution, and the positive effects of youth – elderly interaction, premieres of two cultural products of Bulgarian and Turkish students.

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