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THE MORE MOTIVATION THE LESS DROPOUT IN SCHOOLS

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2018-1-TR01-KA229-059690
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 23,959.1 EUR

THE MORE MOTIVATION THE LESS DROPOUT IN SCHOOLS

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CONTEXT/BACKGROUNDDespite the highest rate of Rome population in Europe, the schooling rate of Roma students is still low. It is investigated the causes of school dropout, irregular attendance, not integration to school and identified influencing factors at three levels: family, community and school.Family ;*The most common cause of school dropout is family financial problems so Roma students are forced migration (seasonally or continuously) to earn money,*the parents’ and siblings’ educational examples(family's low literacy) have a great influence on children’s behaviour,*the parents are also involved in crime and some of them are even arrested,*family break-up, early age marriage and emotional abuse,* the family’s drug addiction, *domestic violence and bullying,School and Community;*lack of security around the school *social exclusion, discrimination.School is the key factor to reduce dropout and supply integration to school.We intent to motivate students to attend the school by involving the whole community through music-dance, sport, art and other activities during the school partnership time between the years 2018-2020.OBJECTIVES The general aim of our Project is to reduce the dropout rate of Roma students and integrate them to formal education(nearly 500 students) by the help of music-dance, sport,art and other activities during project time.Through the Erasmus+ partnership work we Turkey, Italy, Romania,Bulgaria and Croatia will work and carry out our duties cooperatively.Our specific objectives to reach with the project;1.to determine obstacles and conduct detailed need analysis,2.to aim to reduce drop-out rate by %10 and ensure students' attendance to school regularly with fresh motivation, 3.to provide more than 2000 students' attandance to project activities4.to decrease discrimination,stimulate mutual understanding, appreciation to other cultures and raise awereness of European Citizenship both Roma and native ones,5.to promote tolerance,social interaction 6.to prevent bullying and violence,7.to raise awereness of teachers, 8.to find solutions for problems originated from family and community 9.to disseminate project outputs.NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTSApproximately 500 Roma students will benefit from the project (120 in Turkey, 160 in Romania, 110 in Croatia, 70 in Bulgaria and 25 in Italy. ) Also more than 2000 students' will attend to project activities directly or indirectly,On the other hand; delegates of The Partner Institutions who will attend LTT activities (teachers and administrators) are totally 65 from all partners. Nearly 240 teachers will benefit from the workshop activities. Also it is expected that more than 600 parents will take advantage of the project.DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIESDuring the project; there will be three main activities; music- dance, sport, visual Art activities. Music activities ( rhythm performance: individual or group performances using ethnic and cultural instruments, dance performance: combining music and rhythm in ethnic dance performances, music performance: singing ethnic songs solo and chorus),Visual Arts activities(wall painting activities ( grafitti.....), preparing handcraft materials, ),Sport competition: (football, basketball match, local and traditional sport competition etc....) In addition to these activities we will organize different kind of activities,local and LTT activities by including the students, teachers,administrators, parents, stakeholders.METHODOLOGYThe participants will be teachers in LTT activities; thus the learning teaching activity will be designed as adult education activity which conforms via experiential learning, androgogy and non-formal education techniques. There will be several workshops related to school drop outs, preventing bullying, how to decrease domestic violence, social inclusion of disadvantage groups.In the whole different methods will be used such as waterfall method, SWOT analysis, Pecha Kucha method to provide teachers experience the new and effective methods.RESULTS AND IMPACTFinally; we aim to supply students regular attendance to school, reduce their dropping out rates and motivate and integrate them to formal education by the help of music, sport, dance ,art and other activities. Teachers will be expected to improve the pedagogical/methodological skills, to observe similar schools key competence of Roma students' education, to awake awereness European citizenship, to promote international cooperation to cope with educational issues.LONG TERM BENEFITSAfter the project period; seminars, workshops, meetings will continue to be held including the experienced staff to motivate the other colleagues and students and parents.Thanks to the project web site and guidebook, sustainability of the project will continue.

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