Objectives
The concrete Sheherazade project objectives are:
- To raise awareness of the potential of storytelling and to promote storytelling as an educational tool in different fields of formal and non formal adult education
- To develop new methodologies and materials for using stories and storytelling in adult teaching and learning
- To test these innovative approaches and new content and include them in initial and in-service teacher training courses
- To promote stories and storytelling as part of formal and non-formal adult training
- To make resources for storytelling available
- To introduce storytelling in formal and non-formal adult learning
- as an effective way of active teaching and learning,
- for strengthening a sense of identity and community,
- to stimulate creativity
- to stimulate independent learning skills (learning to learn)
- to help learners to memorize and internalize language
- to develop listening and speaking skills (in mother tongue and foreign languages) including the key skills of performance and recital
- to stimulate the development of reading and writing skills ( in mother tongue and foreign language)
- to stimulate adults to express themselves and to raise their self esteem
- to stimulate discussion and debate
- to raise adults’ motivation for learning
- to improve social and cultural participation of migrants, newcomers, socially deprived groups
- as a vehicle for the intercultural dialogue and a way to connect to cultural heritage
- as a vehicle for the inter-generational dialogue
- as a tool for foreign language learning and an ideal promoter of multilingualism