Practices

Unlimited Learning
Comenius Regio Partnership
Institutions involved:
Partner Regio 1
Thematic Field: Teaching professions
Coordinator organisation: Childcare and Education department, city of Mölndal
Partner organisations:
SE - Sweden
Bifrost pedagogical unit
Lackarebäck pre-primary schools
Krokslätt primary school
Sörgård general secondary school
Askengren & Co.
Partner Regio 2
Coordinator organisation: Giresun Milli Egitim Mudurlugu (municipality)
Partner organisations: Yetmisbesinci Yýl Anaokulu
TR - Turkey Cumhuriyet Ðlköðretim Okulu
Gazipasa Ðlkögretim Okulu
Espiye Halk Egitim Müdürlügü (adult education)
Key words: School leadership, Collaborative learning
Description:
The aim of project was to create and offer Unlimited Learning for all children and
students in the partner regions and go from a teaching organisation to a learning
organisation. More specifically, the project objectives were to define and try out
indicators for a learning organisation, to find out how to organise and manage a
learning organisation, to create sustainable local and European networks, to use
ICT as a creative tool in the pedagogical process and to try and evaluate Action
Learning (AL) as a method for cross border cooperation.
A learning organisation needs to be managed by a learning leader; a non-learning
leader will not recruit learning persons and will also suppress a learning attitude
eventually. Action Learning can be useful for organising learning groups that help in
constant learning, the foundation for a learning organisation. Therefore, learning
leaders are the core of the learning organisation and learning management sets the
framework for the learning organisation. During the first year partners, discussed the
challenges: “what is a learning leader? What is a learning organisation? What are the
optimal conditions for learning?”. During the second year, it addressed the
identification of the needs and competences of a learning leader and develops actions
for change and development.
Main results were studies of local and transnational action learning groups,
workshops on “leadership” and “competences”, movies reflecting the effect of i-pads
on pupils, learning exhibitions, project logo, website, learning materials and booklet
of the project, published in three languages. The movie showcases interviews with
headmasters and teachers on how they perceive their own inner journey and change
and what they see at this point in time. They also discuss how this inner change is the
basis for organisational change. The materials are available in EST site.
Award:
EST star project
Duration:
2010-2012
Webpage:
http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2010-1-SE1-
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