Literacy Act

Project Title: LiteracyAct – Basic literacy, transversal skills and competences for adult migrants through Community Theatre.

Project Acronym: LiteracyAct

Project Number: 2020-1-IT02-KA204-080084

Project Website: https://www.literacyact.eu/

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Start date: 2020-10-01

End date: 2022-09-30

The LiteracyAct project addresses  education to professionals, trainers, artists,  voluntary workers  in the field of migration and adult education at national  and European level, as well as to Policy makers responsible for adult education. Its main objectives are:

Developing and disseminating language/cultural learning  strategies based on theatre activities.

Results:

O1 – LiteracyAct Desk Research: collection of good practices based on educational theater activities aimed at developing basic skills in disadvantaged situations, to be published on relevant European platforms

O2 – LiteracyAct Labs: creation of a Toolkit based on 3 piloting workshops involving different approaches to learning through theater. Workshops are based on active spectatorship, creative acting / authorship, critical appraisal of the language learning outcomes from the previous activities.

O3- LiteracyAct Tutorials: Production of 3 video tutorials based on the above described workshops and resulting performances (O2)

O4 – LiteracyAct Handbook: Training people to form communities, a handbook for social workers / teachers / artists willing to improve social / cultural literacy through theater practices.

05- LiteracyAct Impact Evaluation Guide Lines: Evaluation tool for assessing the impact of theater practices in language / social literacy

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