Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2014 Newsletter
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------time we have lost contact with this past – ethically
significant – that we all share, we all had
experience as individuals. Why should you refer to
what happened in the past if you do not have
ethical or moral or psycho-emotional concerns? The
antique is perfectly legitimate for people who like all
old things, just because they are old. There is no
lesson and no real interest for the present.
No one owns the past. We are all part of it. We are
all free to study it, for any reason, with any
instrument. “All in all, you're just another brick in
the wall”, Pink Floyd sang in 1979, and their song
conquered the youth all over the world.
For this reason, the fundamental question is: how
to start again for those who are placed out of daily
and active engagement in the school? Where to find
the resources for the renewal, when everything is
going to the sunset of life and the future already
seems a distant past? It is a challenge.
forbid the post-eTwinning. Reasoning together, I
think we could answer questions with innovative
projects that restore the dignity of active citizenship
education to all those the register office, and only
the register office, considers no longer valid for the
work.
If these are the premises of my argument, what
consequences may come, legitimately and without
trivializing, I will try to say it. I have never thought
about forms of aggregations such as fighters and
survivors who, having abandoned their arms, play
cards, less bloody but certainly only a pastime. Nor
do I think the nice and noble associations of
students or teachers of educational institutions,
born in order to meet occasionally to revive their
memories.
I think to continue to work for the school and the
pupils in other forms; a commitment finalized yet to
the school as a whole. It would be ineffective at this
point to indicate a programme with a lot of
scanning time and goals. The aim is to continue to
consider and be considered belonging to the school
community, a membership that qualifies through
targeted and shared projects. This newsletter is an
example; but we need to put together energies and
someone who undertakes the task of leading the
roped, such as mountain climbers, who reach the
summit together.
The web is a great help in setting up a database
online for students and for teachers about teaching
materials, invitations and suggestions for reading
on topics interesting and relevant to them.
Let us imagine, for example, making a route on the
ancient roads of the European continent, in the
ages that have marked our history. Following the
waterway of the Danube means to follow the course
of European history from the time of the migration
of peoples to the formation of new ethnic groups
and new nations: Germans and Slavs, Hungarians
and Romanians, many peoples and many different
origins. Going along the Via Appia is to search for
the roots of European civilization: Greece and parts
of the Mediterranean, the Hellenic imagination and
innocence of origins.
Because in the same condition you can find
yourself, and certainly other colleagues will be, here
is my proposal. eTwinning could continue in other
forms even after retirement. In the era of postmodernism, I believe that there is no reason to
The roads that run through our Europe have been
arteries of communication for centuries, and in
some cases thousands of years. There are elements
of our daily lives, but usually we do not take care or
pay attention. A road is an element of life that
should make us reflect. In school the “roads” may
be the subject of interdisciplinary study. We can
consider it also a triviality, but attention to this
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