Blended Montessori-Creative Technologies approach for successful inclusion in Multicultural Schools (MonTech) project will foster social inclusion and equity in multicultural schools across Europe through highly innovative and engaging activities based on a new approach that blends the Montessori method with cutting-edge Maker Education learning experiences.
The main objective of MonTech is to foster the social inclusion of children with refugee, migrant, or minority backgrounds in their school environment. The first specific objective is to support educators that are teaching in multicultural schools to effectively increase their educational performance by implementing activities inspired by a new approach (Montessori + Creative Technologies). The second specific objective is the measurable increase of the educational performance of these children.
In order to achieve these goals, MonTech proposes to recover, adapt and transfer a well-known and successful learning method (Montessori), which was originally born to help the poorest children in the slums of Italy, but which today has become mainly associated with private schools for privileged children.
The idea is twofold:
- to return the method to its origins, by thinking of how to adapt its creative learning materials to the current multicultural school contexts;
- to update the method through technological and digital tools, since over the years it has gradually fallen behind in these aspects. The idea is that these creative computing tools, added to Montessori, will help to promote learning through play, creative thinking, practical life, and will add non-linguistic elements. All these elements are very important in improving refugee/migrant education.
The project will first focus on integrating Montessori and Creative Technologies. This will result in the development of a teacher’s guide. Then there will be the training of trainers from different countries. After that, the trainers will train the teachers, and the process will end with the implementation of workshops for children in multicultural schools.
The project partners are:
- UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA (Spain)
- ACTION SYNERGY SA (Greece)
- COMPANY OF RESEARCH, EDUCATION, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTH AEGEAN REGION – ELORIS S.A. (Greece)
- COMPLEX CULTURAL ESPORTIU MONTESSORI PALAU S.A. (Spain)
- KARSIYAKA ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU (Turkey)
- CENTER FOR CREATIVE TRAINING (Bulgaria)
- WATERPARK MONTESSORI INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Ireland)
- LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC CONSTANTIN IANCULESCU (Romania)
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The project partners are:
- UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA (Spain)
- ACTION SYNERGY SA (Greece)
- COMPANY OF RESEARCH, EDUCATION, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTH AEGEAN REGION – ELORIS S.A. (Greece)
- COMPLEX CULTURAL ESPORTIU MONTESSORI PALAU S.A. (Spain)
- KARSIYAKA ILCE MILLI EGITIM MUDURLUGU (Turkey)
- CENTER FOR CREATIVE TRAINING (Bulgaria)
- WATERPARK MONTESSORI INTERNATIONAL Ltd. (Ireland)
- LICEUL TEHNOLOGIC CONSTANTIN IANCULESCU (Romania)
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