SCHOOLS ENGAGE – Service Learning as a vehicle for fostering active citizenship is an Erasmus+ K2 project that runs from December 2020 to November 2022.
The SCHOOLS ENGAGE project aims to produce an innovative educational package for secondary education that builds on Service Learning (SL) as a pedagogical context for cultivating citizenship competences and promoting civic engagement, participation and common values. It aspires to enhance teachers’ professional development by supporting them to apply innovative teaching practices in their curricula. The project’s challenge is to intervene in secondary education. Therefore, this sector must increasingly be approached with a view of promoting and supporting the real-life testing and application of SL interventions in schools.
Objectives
Enhance teachers’ professional development by supporting them to apply innovative teaching practices related to service learning (SL)
equip teachers with tools, methodologies and ready-to use materials in the application of SL
Support the real-life testing and application of SL interventions in schools
Increase students’ civic participation, strengthen their democratic values and cultivate active citizenship competences
Secondary Schools
Teachers
Students
Families
Community members, depending on the SL activities students will apply (e.g. if students apply SL projects aiming at helping the elderly, elderly people will become part of the project)
