CHANCES – ABOUT THE PROJECT
The general aim of the Chances Project is to construct a 3-ECTS itinerary for education degrees/masters coupled with new assessment mechanisms by means of digital OERs. Future teachers of pre-school & primary schools will learn how to bring the Climate Change subject into the classroom linking Catholic religion values and science.
Specific objectives
- Increase effectiveness of the formal education system’s understanding & experience of CC competences through a new learning methodology which combines scientific knowledge with individual capabilities, values, beliefs.
- Tackle the gap between the EU schools’ curricula and Pope´s encyclical LS 201 and UN Agenda 2030.
- Learn (teachers of pre-school/primary) a future-oriented curriculum consisting of 3 ECTS about How Catholic religion teaching can educate on CC.
- Develop an online course for HIE professors/students to enhance motivation, opportunity and ability for CA and pilot it with teachers/pupils of schools.
- Deliver the course via an e-Learning platform capable to evidence and assess the CC skills and transferable forward-looking skills that childhood students need to become true factors of change.
Expected outcomes
1. CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IMPACTS ON PRE-SCHOOL & PRIMARY ENHANCING MOTIVATION, OPPORTUNITY AND ABILITY FOR CLIMATE ACTION (CA)
For the first time, scientific knowledge is combined with some of the most powerful values & beliefs, the religious ones, increasing the effectiveness of the formal education system’s understanding and experience of CC competences.
2. EDUCATION GRADUATES & ALUMNI HAVE NEW SKILLS FOR TEACHING CLIMATE ACTION THROUGH RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TO PRE-SCHOOL & PRIMARY PUPILS SO THAT THEY BECOME TRUE FACTORS OF CHANGE.
– Education graduates who choose to specialise in Catholic religious education are close to their work life. Thanks to CHANCES, students are challenged; they acquire competences to tackle the gap between the current curricula and Pope´s encyclical LS 201 and UN Agenda 2030.
– By integrating new learning outcomes from the subject of the catholic religion, future teachers and their pupils acquire CC competences and the corresponding CA skills to enable behavioural changes for individual preferences, consumption habits, and lifestyles.
3. HIE PROFESSORS, UNIVERSITIES & CHURCH INSTITUTIONS DISPOSE OF A TRANS-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH & INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES TO TACKLE THE GAP BETWEEN YOUNG /CHILDREN PEOPLE ‘S CONCERN AND PERSONAL COMMITMENTS ON CA
– E-learning materials based on the new CC curriculum in Catholic Religion education
– It is a student-centred E-PORTFOLIO that collects & shows the CC skills and competencies acquired during learning
– Systematic collection of student work (achievements in how to tech CC through Catholic Education)
– Assessment more appropriate & effective (student reflection, self-evaluation…)
4. EXCELLENT PROFESSORS OF CATHOLIC EDUCATION ARE REWARDED IN 3 UNIVERSITIES
Professors/academics interested to make religious education more adapted to the wider society are rewarded.
– Teachers interested in research on how Catholic religion can educate on CC and CA according to the Pope´s encyclical LS 201 and UN Agenda 2030.
– Teachers can receive the corresponding EUROPASS accreditation.
– Teachers become capable to deliver the e-learning materials tackling their digital competence gaps.
5. AN ACTION OF COOPERATION WITH PLAYERS IN THE RESEARCH SECTOR (HIE), SOCIETY (CHURCH) AND IN THE FORMAL PUBLIC EDUCATION (PRESCHOOL/PRIMARY).
– Results 1,2,3,4 are developed, practiced and tested in a digital era through our pilot experience.
– An online or blended course at the 3 universities and part-time in 6 public pre-school/primary schools. Italian, Spanish & Poland Catholic bodies which decide on the teaching of religion, support the project.
