Practices

Eco-friendly construction for the future
Comenius School Bilateral Partnership
Countries involved:
UK, BG
Key words: Transition from school to work, Motivation
Description:
Thematic Field: ESL
The partnership involves pupils aged from 14 to 17 and focusses on the topic of
sustainable construction techniques. Both schools have identified that students
currently involved in the Construction curriculum often have poor levels of aspiration
and tend to be less academically motivated or successful.
Both schools have identified community partners to support the construction
curriculum and ensure that students have a real life work based experience. In
both cases the partners, Civil Association Korea in Bulgaria and Teasdale Community
Resources in the UK are developing 'green' techniques of construction using
sustainable resources.
The project not only developed the construction skills of the students but also
aimed at broadening their horizons, raising aspirations and developing initiative
and entrepreneurship within a wider European context; It allowed students to work
jointly with their peers in the partner country on a specific construction challenge and
learn about the use of sustainable resources in construction, to develop construction
and entrepreneurial skills, to experience daily life in a different culture and develop
linguistic skills and to experience a success while teachers had the opportunity to
share pedagogical approaches.
Award:
EST star project
Duration:
2010-2012
Webpage:
http://www.europeansharedtreasure.eu/detail.php?id_project_base=2010-1-GB1-
COM07-05678;
http://est.britishcouncil.org/product_show.php?id_project=2010-1-GB1-COM07-
05678-1&id_product=1
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