The Art Of Curiosity: learning community
Creative Connections ·Lithuania
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">The project aims to develop active citizenship related skills of young people and diminish the gap between the ethnic minorities and majority groups. The relevance of the issues around exclusion and vulnerability of Lithuanian ethnic minorities is increasingly high in the context of growing geopolitical tensions in the region and deep exclusion demonstrated by a variety of research (such as Civic Empowerment Index, PISA tests results, Cultural participation studies etc.). </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">The project will seek positive impact through partnerships with schools, taking into account that they are attended even by most socially isolated young people. With support of specifically trained creative professionals, young people and their teachers will learn by exploring, solving real problems, realizing their ideas, collaborating with external partners. This way of learning will develop skills of citizenship, critical thinking, creativity and other core 21st century skills. Teachers will start to apply teaching methods based on active and mindful participation. Significant and inspiring aspect of the Programme - it will support emergence of local learning communities, crossing the ethnic and sectoral boundaries. </span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #606060"><span style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Arial, sans-serif">The uniqueness of the programme “The Art of Curiosity” lies in its capacity to reach sustainable shifts of behaviours and attitudes of its participants, nurture relationships based on openness and dialogue. After the project, the schools continue to apply all-inclusive, inquire and creativity-based learning strategies and methods. Schools continue collaborations with cultural, municipal, civic society organizations. The project creates conditions to be convinced of benefits of cooperation within the school community and the external partners. Isolation is replaced by openness and connectedness with diverse cultural environment. </span></span></span></p>
Project partners
- Artists group “Fish Eye” Project partner· Lithuania