ERASMUS + KA203 project
October 2019 – August 2022
Coordinated by Sandie Mourão (FCT / CETAPS researcher)
Total budget: 300 667,00 €
The main aim of this three-year project, which focuses on innovation in the Higher Education and School Education Sectors, is to strengthen the profile of the teaching profession through the development of practitioner competencies to confidently integrate intercultural citizenship education (ICE) into early English as a foreign language (EFL) education. The target group is the school community – practitioners (teachers of English, teacher librarians, student teachers), children aged 5 to 12 years, and teacher educators.
Consisting of a network of partners from five European countries – Portugal, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands – with expertise in early language learning, teacher education, picturebooks in language learning and materials design, ICEPELL aims to:
- Survey practitioners’ attitudes and reasons for reticence towards ICE
- Compile a data-base of picturebooks in English to develop ICE in early EFL education
- Provide training and professional development to pre- and in-service practitioners, equipping them with the necessary knowledge, attitudes and competences to successfully plan for, manage and assess ICE through picturebooks in early EFL education
- Develop, pilot and evaluate teaching packs around picturebooks that will integrate ICE in early EFL
- Publish and disseminate a handbook that supports practitioners and teacher educators in integrating ICE through picturebooks into the early EFL curriculum
- Facilitate an Open Educational Resources platform on e-Twinning that enables practitioners to develop communities of practice
- Support teachers in setting up a virtual space to bring children together across borders to interact and develop ICE in real time
- Set up an ICEPELL Project platform to disseminate the project activities and outputs
Visit the ICEPELL site here
Download an ICEPELL flier here