The Future of Education

The purpose of the project is the realization of an informative didactic material which will contain stories referring to the possibility to receive, to understand and to assimilate of the state in which they work. The project’s research domains are in concordance with the communicative situations and with the competencies exposed in the C E F L. The methods of studying will be the tandem and E-tandem. Activities of the study group will be correlated with the virtual study group and the users will realize their didactic tasks using e-mail, chat, forum. Members of the tandem will be children and parents who work abroad. A fundamental principle of the project is the presence of multiculturality and the intercultural diversity from the Eastern and Western perspectives. With the agreement of the participants will be made a list of thematic areas on the basis of which tandemists who work abroad will tell their experiences of assimilation the culture of the state in which they work. The narration will have an authentic character and will not be supposed to the planning rules. Participants, using chat or forum, can ask and answer to the questions of other tandemists within the virtual study group. Users will watch some video sequences with different daily situations, significant for other cultures, and after this they will comment upon the learned information. The next step is that the user will receive a video in which he will see the way his parents reacted at the same situation being in the middle of the respective culture. The virtual study group will be composed from tandemists who studied the daily situations and the way of their assimilation in 4-6 countries. A very important stage for tandemists is the interpretation of the information, because during the interpretation they will discover the intercultural similitudes and also they will observe and understand the differences between countries. This stage will be like an indicator for the formation of the strategies of creation the user’s intercultural competencies, and also it will help to elaborate documents for intercultural education at the institutional level. Taking into account the medium in which we work such attempts of valorization the adults’ intercultural experiences can have a beneficent impact.