PROSKILLS
The arts and the art-therapy as
a means of developing creativity, proactivity and soft skills in
disadvantaged adult learners
The two-year project PROSKILLS - “The arts and the art-therapy as a means of
developing creativity, proactivity and soft skills in disadvantaged adult
learners” commenced in September 2009 and is funded by the Lifelong Learning
Program as a Partnership. The project aims at implementing methods based on
art and art therapy as a means of developing proactive attitudes, creativity
and soft skills in the adult learners and therefore to increase their level
of social participation and civil engagement.
The coordinator is Christina Miliaca from Technopras (Rome, Italy) and apart
from our school the partner institutions are Sisli (Instabul, Turkey),
Siauliai University (Siauliai, Lithuania), Feramuc-Gu (Guadalajara, Spain)
and AidLearn (Lisbon, Portugal).
Core of the project ProSkills is the partnership’s exchange and the creation
of a common framework-model related to the application of creative and
active teaching/training methods, based on the arts and art-therapy (music,
painting, movies, drama, etc.), with the aim to develop in the socially
disadvantaged people a creative mind, proactive attitudes and behavior,
ability of learning to learn and to self-develop themselves. This innovative
teaching practice will lead them to regain their self-confidence, increase
their motivation and commitment to the learning process and consequently
help them ameliorate their work status.
The project aims to develop a website and a CD-ROM with the pedagogical
product that will derive by the implementation of the program. Teachers and
students will also participate in the transnational meetings of the
partnership.