Description of our Comenius Project

Our title is ‘Do you think I’ll fit in?’ In our society, including education, we see a gap in accessibility both to places and information for certain disabilities, specifically deaf, blind and people with mobility problems. 

We want everyone to feel included, find their place in society, be able to develop all their skills, feel valued and be able to value others, thereby generally become tolerant citizens in our new small world. As a partnership we wish to embrace this philosophy by encouraging teachers and students to try to find ways of integrating everyone. We also want to enable teachers to improve and share their teaching methodology using IT.

The partnership will provide motivation to pupils by sharing information, ideas and possible solutions to a problem we are all aware of but know little about.     

Each of the countries will research all aspects of inclusion for blind, deaf and people with reduced mobility in their own area.  

We will also investigate access to cultural and essential information, including research access to buildings, shops etc. which have been adapted and others which still need to be adapted for some of us.

We will then share this information in a common wiki space to compare and contrast our findings and then come up with ideas for making changes to address the needs we have discovered. 

Each country will be responsible for at least one aspect of the project and the coordinator will ensure that an open communication system exists among all the participating countries and that all the activities are structured so that the whole project comes together in a logical way. We will integrate the results of this project in our future work.