How I see myself in a tolerant world
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First Report
Title of project
"How I see myself in a tolerant world"
Partner schools
School #1: BG/BRG XXI Schulschiff "Bertha von Suttner"
School #2:School No 43 "Linguistic school" Russia
School #3: The Finnish - Russian School of Eastern Finland
The project group is called "Multicultural Salad", the motto "Together we taste better".
Working language
English
Participants (all persons involved - students, teachers):
Russian part of the team
Teachers: Ludmila Rastorgueva - the school principal; Olga Vokhmyanina - school library manager, project coordinator; Irina Burdun - English teacher.
Students: Svetlana Vozykova; Natalia Slabkiy; Irina Bakhareva; Natalia Ivanova; Ksenia Kuznetsova; Anastasia Arsenjeva; Maria Filatova; Kristina Bilyk; Nikita Kovalevskiy.
Austrian part of the team
Teachers: Gerhard Goschnik - project coordinator, French teacher; Denise Kamil - English teacher
Students: Evelyn Bdinka; Marlene Dienstl; Tanja Ehritz; Tamara Giefing; Andreas Hric; Kristina Kimmel; Natalie Mazur; Lena Mikolka; Richard Petras; Lisa Preimel; Vicky Reiter (aka MTC); Magdalena Steck; Alexander Strauch; Maria Tsetskhladze
Finnish part of the team
Teachers: Anu. Siuvatti, Pekka Kanninen & Satu Komi
Students: From Joensuu: Jaana Ovaskainen, Svetlana Riikonen, Iiris Saarelainen, Linda Vairinen, Miira Voutilainen. From Imatra: Svetlana Egorova, Evgeni Egorov, Sasha Sajinov, Karoliina Rantasalo, Laura Hannula, Sofia Hirvonen. From Lappeenranta: Marja Taskula, Elina Ripatti, Senja Kouru, Reetta Kauppinen, Anniina Tammi, Tatiana Andrushcenko.
The 1st meeting in St. Petersburg
Project partners (other persons or institutions involved - e.g. experts, artists, organisations)
Idea of the project / project description / runtime
Bringing up students tolerance through intercultural dialogue and communication; overcoming stereotypes. The 1-st step: "About stereotypes" Questionnaire (April-May 2008); The 2-nd step: "National culture special features" (September - November 2008); The 3-rd step: "Youth sub-culture" (January - May 2009).
Aims of the project
Research work on stereotypes in Austria, Finland and Russia - presentation.
Detailed project-schedule and method (who, what, when, how?)
1. Research work about the Russian - Austrian - Finnish stereotypes with a questionnaire. (in April - MAy 2008) 2. National culture (November 2008) 3. Youth sub-culture (May 2009) 1.Who? All school-partners participants. What? A questionnaire "Overcoming the stereotypes". When? April-May 2008. How? Public opinion poll.Placing of received data on WIKI. 2.Who? Participants of the project (Russia). What? "Problems of megacities". When? September - November 2008. How? Placing of presentation (as a part of research work on the 2-nd step "National culture features")on WIKI. 3.Who? Participants of the project (Russia). What? Collage "We are different and it's interesting". When? December - February 2008 - 2009. How? The project participants photos - collage. 4.Who? All school-partners participants. What? "Youth sub-culture" - presentation. When? December 2008 - March 2009. The information is placed on WIKI as a part of the researh work (3-rd step). 5.Who? All school-partners participants. What? Research work and presentation "How I see myself in a tolerant world". When? March - April 2009. How? All information is summarized and placed on WIKI.
Comment the projects here
1.Natalia Slabkiy, 14 years old, Russia, "I think this project is very important because we can communicate and make friends. When we met all together we understood that we have lots in common: interests, problems and even ideas! Moreover, now we can realise what a tolerant person is. I'm happy to be the participant of this great project!"
2.Irina Bakhareva, 14 years old, Russia, "As for me, I think the project is really interesting and important. I've found out a huge number of fascinating facts about different cultures, different people and their characters. I managed to expend fronteres and overcome a lot of stereotypes. I truly enjoyed it and hope to keep taking part in such kind of activities. P.S. And, banal it seems, but I've made a lot of friends."
3.Maria Filatova, 14 years old, Russia, "This project is great. It's a good chance to know more about different cultures "at first hand". Although the schedule was complicated enough, we had a lot of fun. And, of course, it's great that we can understand each other, because everybody speaks English!"
