Gamification for Intercultural Education
Support the process of social integration of intercultural school communities by providing necessary practical resources for teachers, educational institutions.
Counteracting the phenomena of intolerance, mistrust, ignorance, traditional and prejudice against other cultures, peoples, races or religions hostility and prejudice against other cultures, peoples, races or religions as a result enables creativity based on cooperation.
The aim of the project is to contribute to the efforts already undertaken by the European Union to promote cultural diversity, which is a real richness when individual cultural groups take care of their ‘treasures’ on the one hand and can show it to others in the right light on the other. This is the only way to create a strong foundation for building creative attitudes among the young generation.
The project is designed to:
- Create a pedagogical impact by generating innovative, game-based teaching methodology;
- Impact on training practices of educators, trainers, teachers in adult education;
- Impact on the quality of work and competences of teachers by creating educational materials, including a textbook and an e-learning course.
One of the most important tasks of the modern education system is the problem of preparing the young generations for life in a society where it will be necessary to define one’s attitude towards others, which are different in cultural terms. Are we adequately prepared to live with people with different cultural identities from ours? Can education overcome or reduce existing stereotypes and prejudices and, in the long term, prevent social tensions and conflicts? These questions remain open.
The learning material include:
- Identification of current intercultural problems in the local community;
- Instructions on preparation of a didactic game concept appropriate to intercultural issues;
- Preparation of a scenario of a game for the three types of environment: outdoor, indoor (board game), online;
- Lessons from the implementation (testing process of the prepared game);
- Practical tips & recommendations for teachers;
- Description of the developed games, instructions for outdoor, board and Internet versions.
Support for creativity cultural awareness
The aim is to develop skills and competences that enhance the creativity of participants, contribute to social inclusion through culture and art, shape cultural awareness and build intercultural dialogue through didactic games used in intercultural education.
Project results:
By using the project results in the intercultural education of teaching games, whose key features are creativity, fun, rules and joy, teachers will gain very useful tools that are liked and used periodically in the implementation of school curricula.
GFIE Activities
Transnational Project Meetings
The Consortium convened on five occasions (first one was online) at various partner locations throughout the Project's Lifetime!
GFIE Result (WP4)
Handbook
Handbook: "Gamification for Intercultural education – How to use didactic games in children’s intercultural education?"
Handbook: "Gamification for Intercultural education – How to use didactic games in children’s intercultural education?"
The handbook prepares teachers to design educational games and implement them in a classroom setting. Different educational environments have been taken into account and different types of games have been discussed. We have focused on describing online, outdoor and board games.
Gamification for intercultural education – how to use didactic games in children’s intercultural education? This handbook prepares teachers to work with children to develop concepts for the preparation, construction and implementation of didactic games in different educational environments.
The handbook is able to be used by teachers of children of different ages, not only in partner countries, but also in other EU countries, after adaptation to the legal requirements of a given country.
The handbook could also be used by NGOs working with schools and children to prepare different forms of classes.
The handbook contains:
- Introduction: understand interculturalism, teachers facing the challenges of intercultural education, the needs and constraints of the use of teaching games in intercultural education, intercultural education in the light of international legal regulations;
- Teaching games to face the challenges of contemporary intercultural education;
- Practical aspects of creating didactic games in intercultural education, features of good play for intercultural education: setting objective(s), setting the topics, building reality, team building, determining the time frame and place, selection of tools;
- Adaptation of didactic games to different environments of use: outdoor, board, digital;
- Good practices.
GFIE Result (WP5)
E-Learning Course
Gamification for Intercultural Education
E-learning course will include educational materials and tools for teachers on working with children involved in intercultural education. The e-learning course will include materials on the preparation and use of games in intercultural education. A novelty of the e-learning course is the availability of training materials concerning the development of concepts, creation and implementation of games in intercultural education, ways of adapting a specific game in various educational environments (outdoor, board and online). Such adaptation is of particular importance in the changing conditions related to Covid-19 pandemic.
E-learning course: using games in intercultural education. For teachers and all those interested, educational materials and tools for working with children in intercultural education. Each lesson is presented in an easy-to-follow step-by-step manner, with clearly defined objectives and tasks.
Content:
- Intercultural education and its impact on children;
- The role of games in intercultural education;
- Methodology for involving pupils in the gamification process;
- Methodology for creating educational games;
- The use of didactic games in different educational environments.
GFIE Activity
Piloting
Piloting and Local Activities for the development of Result 3 took place in the premises of Primary Municipality School "Imri Elezi" Skopje
GFIE Result (WP6)
Didactic Materials
Collection of games for Intercultural Education
Materials will include set of games that were prepared and tested by the teachers and children. Its purpose is to be a practical aid for the creation and implementation of didactic games in intercultural education.
Materials will include set of games that were prepared and tested by the teachers and children. Its purpose is to be a practical aid for the creation and implementation of didactic games in intercultural education.
The material in the form of a set of games prepared and tested by teachers and children is intended for teachers, trainers, and parents who will use the results of the project as a practical aid in developing and implementing teaching games in intercultural education.
The innovation lies in the fact that we involve children in the creation of this outcome and give them the possibility to influence the shape of the process. The involvement of children will certainly have a significant impact on the effectiveness of the method.
Content of the didactic material for teachers:
- Identification of current intercultural problems in the local community;
- preparation of a game concept adapted to intercultural issues;
- Preparation of the game scenario for the given environment: outdoor, classroom, online;
- implementation;
- testing of the prepared game;
- guidance for teachers after completion of testing;
- description of the game, instructions for the outdoor, board and online versions.
Dissemination Event
Multiplier Event
To expand the reach and impact of the Project by sharing its results and insights with a broader audience
Target Group
Specific Objectives
Target Group
The intended audience for our initiative includes educators, teachers, and individuals actively engaged in fostering intercultural interactions with children. This group comprises professionals working within schools, educational institutions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), as well as key stakeholders in the field of education.
Specific Objectives
The Multiplier event aims to achieve a precise goal: to actively encourage the project’s promotion and dissemination, sharing comprehensive information, and showcasing the outcomes of the Gamificiation for Intercultural Education (GFIE) project. During this event, we had the opportunity to present three distinct products that have emerged from the GFIE project.
In this event, innovative educational tools were presented, by using gamified tools for educational purposes, especially in the field of interculturalism. The project is called “Gamification for Intercultural Education” (2020-1-PL01-KA227-SCH-095412) and is financed by European Commission through the Erasmus+ programme.
The project was designed, to create a pedagogical impact by generating innovative, game-based learning methodologies, to create impact on training practices of educators, trainers and teachers in educational premises as well as outside of formal educational institutions, and to create an impact on the quality of work and teachers’ competencies by creating educational materials, including a textbook and an e-learning course. In this event were presented all materials that were created during these 2 years of work starting from March 2020 till February 2023.
Project Consortium
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