SOPHIA Menon Project
As a partner in the European project “MENON: Developing dialogue through philosophical inquiry” SAPERE is currently funded along with 10 European partners with special responsibilities to produce a booklet, a teachers hand book and DVD.
Dissemination of results and experiences :
1 publication of a booklet establishing theoretical foundations and pedagogical implications of
dialogue in each partners language i.e. DE, EN, ES, FI, LV, HU, MT, NL, PO, IS, NO
2 adaptation and publication of Teacher’s Handbook and CD-rom in each partners own language
3 publication of DVD containing interactive pedagogical materials partly translated in each partners
own language, partly followed by translated paper transcripts (video clips)
4 brochures of Dialogue Course in each partners own language
5 publication of the final evaluation report of the project in English
6 brochures of the evaluation of pilot courses and material available in each partners own language
7 project website of 30 pages in English with all necessary information of materials available,
contact persons in each countries, course curriculum etc.
8 International Workshop for European teachers and teacher educators on Dialogue in 2008
(Lisbon, Portugal)
The co-ordinator will lead the dissemination process where each partner has its own and partly mutual responsibilities as following:
SAPERE (UK) is responsible for the publication of the English version of booklet as well as of the English version of Teacher’s Handbook and CD-rom, and after that each partner is responsible for their translation and publication in their own countries (point 1 and 2 above),
University of Oulu (Finland) together with the assistance of SAPERE (UK) are responsible for the publication of DVD after having reached the necessary translations from partners (point 3),
University of Madrid (Spain) is responsible for the publication of brochure of Dialogue Course in English, and after that each partner will translate and publish the national versions (point 4),
The special Evaluation Team (AT, NL, LV and PT) is responsible for the publication of final report (point 5),
All partners are responsible for point 6,
University of Oulu (Finland) is responsible for the publication and updates of project’s website (point 7)
Portugal is responsible for the general organizing of the International Workshop on Dialogue and - together with all other partners – of the programme and activities during the workshop
Long-term exploitation of project results by
- implementing the results and experiences into the further execution of teacher education in partner countries
- continuing the cooperation between the partners after Menon - project and considering the special further Socrates- project for teacher trainers
- developing further material along the lines project
- project’s own website
- the networks of teacher education of participating countries
- the networks of ICPIC (International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children), and SOPHIA , as well as the network of UNESCO – SCHOOLS
- organizing further courses, workshop and conferences for teachers on topic
- active participation in conferences of the topic
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