"DIS-PLAY YOUR ABILITIES"

"DIS-PLAY YOUR ABILITIES"
Roles change as innovative approach to educate youngsters toward diversities into schools

ERASMUS PLUS KA2 STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP
in the YOUTH field:

The intent of this partnership is to build a methodology based on the inversion of the role of the young disabled person to be proficient in training other young people on the theme of diversity, starting with the idea of working on real skills that each of them possess.

Objectives:

• Exchange of good practices and the development of quality strategies and innovative tools and methodologies to improve non-formal education for people with disabilities.
• Structuring corpus of theories and methodologies to support the social inclusion of young people with disabilities through the theater.
• Development, testing, implementation and dissemination of the methodology of the reversal of roles and innovative instruments for the formation of youth with disabilities as leaders of theater workshops and education of young people in diversity.

Expected results:

• The knowledge and the exchange of theatrical techniques and methodologies of social workers in the field of inclusion of young people with disabilities.
• Production of a text on the methodology of role inversion experienced by the partner organizations.
• The creation of a format of theater workshop on diversity co-led by young people with disabilities to be implemented in schools.
• Sharing and testing of tools for evaluating the skills acquired by young people involved in the activities and impact of the workshops in high schools.
• Dissemination of project results to all stakeholders and operators in the territories of the partner organizations that deal with inclusion of young people with disabilities and Education Diversity.

Number and profile of the actors involved:

The direct beneficiaries of the activities will be:

• 10 social workers or technical theater;
• 9 young people with disabilities;
• 18 teachers;
• 150 young people aged between 14 and 18 years of high school involved in the testing laboratories.

The indirect beneficiaries involved through specific activities and visibility will be:

• aproximatly 40 educators of the team of actors;
• about 600 young students of the schools involved.

Project duration: 2 years (from 1 July 2015 to 30 June, 2017)

The project therefore included 3 short-term training events involving theater technicians, social workers and young people with disabilities with experience in theater activities within the participating organizations who will build together the theoretical and practical elements of the innovative methodology through cooperative learning.

The project is developed in the following stages:

• Sharing of innovative theories and conceptual tools for the management of individual projects to accompany young people with disabilities to become co-leader in theater workshops;
• The development, testing and adoption of innovative methods and tools for the non-formal education of young people with disabilities, in order to recognize and assess the skills acquired in the learning process;
• The creation of a shared format of theater workshop on the theme of diversity;
• The experimentation of the partner organizations at local level by using the format of the theater workshop on diversity within high schools and youth centers;
• The implementation of the final events of the laboratories involved in schools in order to inform and raise awareness on the work done on the topic of diversity all young people not directly involved in previously;
• The sharing and dissemination of results between all different actors involved in the inclusion of young people with disabilities and education for diversity.