WEAVING WEB OF STORIES
WEAVING WEBS OF STORIES
Some say that all the greatest human achievements and most of the technological advances we have made have come by chance. However, as Louis Pasteur put it “Chance favors the prepared mind”. Therefore, the WWS consortium needed to understand what it means to have a “prepared mind” in the 21st century and how we can contribute to developing the skills necessary for it.
In days when technology evolves at a rate, which the average human is hardly able to follow, humanity is bound to focus on other types of achievement, which are not simple supplements to STEM-related skills but which contribute transversally to all quality aspects of life – social, professional, mental, cultural wellbeing.
Humanity has been struggling with inequality, with prejudice, with discrimination far and wide – openly visible in less developed regions and subtly disguised in more advanced ones. No wonder that one of the most important aims of the training programme you are diving in is encouraging equality, inclusion and diversity. Yet, despite the unlimited informational vortex we and our children live in, what the youth and adults of the future will need, is not simply the availability of information but the possibility to analyse the information, consider it critically as well as create new content on their own. This is why the other main aim of this programme is, via non-formal learning, to develop and promote literacy skills. The empowerment, which would be generated from achieving these main objectives, would also manifest itself in a third achievement – the so-called socio-emotional literacy, which stories, books, poems, theatre and other creative activities inevitably pave the way for.
Even if it is never late for anybody to start/achieve anything, WWS training programme has focused its attention on a young audience – 10-14 y.o. children, among whom, struggle with literacy and comprehension.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
In the ERASMUS+ Weaving Webs of Stories project, partners from seven partner countries supporting young people to improve their literacy skills and develop a culture of reading for pleasure.
The project works with experienced creative writers and artists in non-formal environments, developing new ways to engage children in making their own stories, artworks and performances – boosting competence in reading, comprehension and creative writing.
By tapping into the richness and diversity of our multi-cultural communities, the project also supports the schools with which we work in promoting equality, challenging stereotypes and intolerance and celebrating difference.
