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city and Turkish Education

System. We visited Language

School YDS, Tourism Vocatio-

nal High School and Adult Edu-

cation Centre.

It's been awhile since our first

newsletter has been written. In

the meantime, we made a lot of

work in the field of disseminati-

on of the project . And so the

time has come that we have

acquired to developed new skills

and discover a new culture.

Our 2nd project meeting was

inaugurated on 11th of March

2014, in Gonen - Turkey. The

Director of National education,

Mr İsmail YILMAZ, delivered

the official welcoming speech.

After that all the partners intro-

duced themselves. 2nd mee-

ting’s work agenda was presen-

ted by host organisation the to

everybody. And then we start

with workshops . Workshops

were presented by Şeyda

DÜLGERLER and Ayça. The

main topics were: define and

identify conflict and conflict

management and mediation.

After a short brake we visited

Adult Educat ion Centre

(Presentation Yaşar TARHAN –

Workshop visits - Turkish Music

by Şenol GÜLÜNAY).

In the next days we visited

Directorate of National Educati-

on and get familiar with functi-

ons of Directorate, Balıkesir

On coordinator meetings we talk

about Project Handbook/Booklet

and decided common the frame of

it.

1.Introduction

-The project

-What is conflict? What is Media-

tion?

-Theory and common problems

2.Individual Country cases (Needs

Analysis), implementation, best

practices

3.Course: common methodologi-

es, techniques, strategies (derived

from country plans)

4.Conclusion (To be decided in a

later meeting)

-General Recommendations

-European Dimension

-Dissemination

A workshop on relationship

strategies and meditation was

held. Tale of the Maligned Wolf

was read and groups created

their own stories.” Things are

often not what they seem in

conflict. We tend to confuse

“our side of the story” with “the

truth” or “what really happe-

ned.” This classic story, The

Maligned Wolf is one of the favo-

urite illustrations of this idea.”

Fatma ÇAVUŞOĞLU

2nd meeting in Turkey

I N T H I S

I S S U E

2nd meeting in

Turkey

1

Training seasions

and other activities

1

Project activities in

Turkey

2


Slovenia

3


Bolgaria

4


Italy

5


Spain

6


Romania

7

Preparation for 3rd

meeting in Sloveni-

a

10

Participants of 2nd

meeting

11

Our moments 12

Training seasions and other activities

MEDIATION FOR

COMMUNICATION A P R I L 2 0 1 4 I S S U E 2

Conflict mediation to

optimize communica-

tion in educational,

social &cultural envi-

ronment

Lifelong Learning

Programme – Grund-

tvig Partnership

P A G E 2

Project activities in Turkey

On 11th of January we had

a Mediation And Conflict

Resolut ion Seminar in

GÖNEN.Mediation And Con-

flict Resolution Seminar in

G Ö N E N

Mediation And Conflict Reso-

lution Seminar was held in

Gönen on Saturday. This

intensive participation training

was designed to provide

practical skills in mediation.

This Seminar included infor-

mal lecture sessions, discussi-

ons, demonstrations, role

plays and a comprehensive

manual. At the end of the

seminar, each participant

received a certificate of com-

pletion.The participants were

the teachers of Gönen Hotel

Management and Tourism

Vocational High School and

the counselors from different

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OF SECOND MEETING

BEEN AT BALIKESIR for

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cation managment

M E D I A T I O N F O R

P A G E 3

Project activities in Slovenia

We have workshop with

teacher and adult trainer. The

main topics were: mediation,

conflict, position, interest.

Our training starts with

exercise how to make a safe

environment for

participants in medi-

ation. We continued

with theoretical part

what mediation is, phases of

mediation. We discus about

conflict. Next exercise was

for training dif ference

between position and inte-

rest.

We made bookmark with

project logo and wise tho-

ughts about communication.

Bookmark were part of our

project promotion material.

We established subpage in

our Company web page, with

description of the project,

partners and dissemination

corner.

In October we informed all

interested public about new

project in our Scholl Centre.

In January addition of Scholl

newspaper we wrote about

our first meeting in Romania,

our experience.

We have basic course of the

mediation at Slovenian associ-

ation of mediators.

Partners from Italy made a

project Flyer, which we tran-

slated in our language.

Workshop

M E D I A T I O N F O R

C O M M U N I C A T I O N

P A G E 4

R O U N D T A B L E

Project activities in Bolgaria In Dimitar Talev Secondary

School Trustee Board , Dob-

rich , Bulgaria started major

activities of the project "

Mediation of conflict to opti-

mize communication in the

educational , social and cultu-

ral environment" under the "

Lifelong Learning " program, "

Grundtvig " sector program .

During the

current period

m e d i a t o r s ’

training starts:

- February, 4 .

Round table "

Organizational

culture and Building image "

related to mediator’s behavio-

ur to help mediator be taken

by the parties in the conflict

and make the right choice of

strategies for mediation.

- Workshop " The personality of the medi-

ator " - mediator’s goals and basic princi-

ples in his work, necessary competenci-

es ,techniques for resolving conflict , media-

tion process, practical actions to possible

conflict situations at school.

M E D I A T I O N F O R C O M M U N I C A T I O N

WORKSHOP

These classes are the basis for getting additional information on

the problem and accumulation of knowledge and skills.

The project participants already discussed real cases and offer

various options to resolve them under the guidance of the school

counselor. There is a case of cyber bullying permanently resolved due to adequate and timely inter-

vention of a mediator in the conflict.

P A G E 5

Opis slike ali grafike.

Project activities in Italy Mediation skills of high school

teachers in Padua, Italy

"Associazione Genitorialità",

involved in the Mediation for

Communication project, is

currently working on under-

standing the need for mediati-

on skills of the teachers in

our area and how those teac-

hers perceive conflicts in their

daily work. We are now

working on the use of

questionnaires to determine

needs and organize meetings

to raise awareness about the

topic of conflict management

and mediation. Our long-time

project is to build a network

between schools in our local

area, so they can confront

and share good practices to

gain a better environment in

their workplace.

We are also working on our-

selves and on the way we

manage our own conflicts,

studying these topics, meeting

to discuss about them and

improving our own skills. For

example, we attended to a

daily workshop about

"Maieutic management of

conflicts" organized by the

Psycho-Pedagogical Centre

for education and conflict

management (http://

www.cppp.it/

cpp_presentation.html) on

April 5th. In this workshop

we learned to question our-

selves about how we perceive

and manage our conflicts.

FLYER


P A G E 6

Project activities in Spain To disseminate the Mediation

for Communication Project

Lawton School used various

approaches.

On the one hand we focused

on the power of social media

using Facebook pages, links on

our company webpage and

the school blog to transfer

news on the Project to stake-

holders and the general public

alike.

On the other hand our staff

were kept up to date on the

Project in staff meetings. We

encouraged our teachers to

use the theme of the Project

as a topic for discussion in

class and even as a topic for

Trinity College exams. Infor-

mation leaflets on the Project

were on display in the entran-

ces of our 4 school branches.

At local level, meetings with

decision makers, such as the

Director of the Local Agency

for Economic development

and Employment as well as

Don Enrique Rodríguez, the

Director of the Department

for European Projects in the

Gijón Town Hall, were used

to inform about the Project.

A mailing list of approximately

100 entities including public

development agencies as

information centres was crea-

ted to publicise the Project.

At European level Lawton

School is an active member of

a network of transnational

partners who were duly infor-

med about the Mediation for

Communication Project´s

proposed results and pro-

ducts.


P A G E 7

poster

TRAINING ACTIVITIES

Project activities in Romania THE DISSEMINATION of the

MEETINGS and of the activities

were held as follows:

- In methodical commission of

orientation and counseling curri-

cular area, educational activities

(February, at school level )

- In Meeting of Parents Associati-

on "Generations to Generations

from the Agricultural High Scho-

ol Falticeni" (March, the repre-

sentatives of parents level)

- In The Teachers Council from

"Vasile Lovinescu" College (April,

at school level)

- In Pedagogical commission of

those responsible for preven-

ting violence in schools on

"Violence in schools" (April, at

county level)

There were presented the

following:

-project objectives, aim, target

group, final results, project

partners, project coordinator

- theoretical and practical

aspects

- selection criteria

-it is specified the period of the

all mobilities

There were distributed publicity

materials (posters, flyers, ppt pre-

sentation )

activity was moderated by the

teachers Lăcrămioara Acatri-

nei -Vasiliu and Laura - Mirela

Pintilie, as members of the

project management team,

while the training activity was

carried out by the teacher

Cătălin -Gabriel Crețu as a

trainer.

The participants were

given general information

about the Grundtvig partners-

hip , but also about the part-

ners, the objectives , the tar-

get group, the activities, the

results and the final products,

about the process of selection

of the project beneficiaries

and in the end they were

presented the activities held

during the mobility in Roma-

nia ( December 2013 ).

The training session on "

Introduction to conflict medi-

ation art " aimed to familiarize

the participants with specific

concepts like: " what mediati-

on is ", " principles of mediati-

on " , "conflict" , " origins of

the conflict" , " responses to

conflict" , " conflict manage-

ment styles "," principles of

conflict resolution . " They

conducted two exercises that

made participants to commu-

nicate, to express their perso-

nal views, to experience new

situations.

"It was a success in that

the activity brought together

factors involved in both the

personality formation and the

education of young people by

offering them a positive alter-

native by mediating conflicts

from their educational, social

and cultural environment.

Such activities will be

repeated during the two years

of partnership. It aims to

finally constitute a mediators'

body at the school level to act

when necessary, and to pro-

mote a revolutionary concept,

"peer mediation ", that means

"on an equal footing mediati-

on ", mediation that can be

performed by students for

their fellow students in scho-

ols.

Training activities within the

Grundtvig Learning Partners-

hip on "Conflict mediation to

optimize communication in

educational, social and cultu-

ral environment were held at

"Vasile Lovinescu" College

Fălticeni on 27th and 28th

January, 2014. The coordina-

tor of the partnership is the

Parents Association

"Generations to Generations

from the Agricultural High

School Falticeni"(at present

under the new name "Vasile

Lovinescu" College) that, in

this capacity, organized the

first meeting of all the part-

ners in Romania, in December

2013.

62 parents,

teachers, educational

counsellors and

psychologists, mem-

bers of the Associati-

on "Generations to

Generations ", atten-

ded the activity held

at " Vasile Lovinescu

" College. The

training


P A G E 8

Violence in the Romanian schools-

conclusions:

Project activities in Romania

The Grundtvig Partnerships

for learning, "Conflict mediati-

on to optimize communication

in educational, social and cultu-

ral environment, has been

valuated through dissemination

and formation of different

target groups: the coordina-

tors of the Partnership School-

Family, the coordinators of the

commissions for prevention of

violence in schools and school-

teachers.

The group of coordinators of

the commissions for preven-

ting the violence in schools

Target group: 150 coordina-

tors of the commissions for

preventing the violence

Date: 4th April 2014

Organizer: The School Inspec-

torate of Suceava County, ¨Ion

Creanga¨ School from Suceava

Target group: 150 coordinators

of the Commission for preven-

ting violence in schools and the

educational counsellors from

Suceava County

Agenda:

Violence in schools from the

point of view of the partnership

between institutions.

Moderators: Tatiana Vîntur-

School Inspectorate of Suceava

County; Ionuţ Epureanu The

Police Inspectorate of Suceava

County; Motoveleţ Elena-The

Antidrug Centre for Preventi-

on, Evaluation and Counselling).

Forms and types of violence.

Procedure concerning the com-

munication of the situations of

violence- Tatiana Vîntur

Conflict mediation among stu-

dents by students (peer mediati-

on¨)- prof Ph. D Lilioara Ghera-

sim.

Best practices for preventing the

violence in schools (Forum The-

atre¨-The Organization ¨Save

Children¨ from Suceava; ¨ Non

violence through culture¨, teac-

her Loredana Paşcan and teac-

her Gabriela Aungurencei;

¨Conflict mediation ¨, teacher

Lãcrãmioara Acatrinei, Tatiana

Vîntur; the Session of

communications

between counties

¨Aggressiveness and

violence in schools,

school inspector Tatiana

Vîntur).

Violence- topic in the agenda of

the formal meetings from scho-

ols;

A better understanding of the

possible sources of violence;

The change of the regulations

from schools from a formal tool

into a real method of prevention

and intervention;

At school level- the creation of

structures that can have a medi-

ation role (centres for resour-

ces);

Programmes for informing stu-

dents concerning the adequate

management of some real situa-

tions of violence (auto-control,

conflict negotiation, communica-

tion, ways of auto-defence, con-

flict mediation, ¨peer mediati-

on¨).

-Examples of interventions at

curricular level:

The debate and encouragement

for students´ opinions;

The use of appropriate topics

for the problem of violence

(rights and duties of individuals,

freedom and norms/rules con-

cerning behaviour, decision and

the consequences of decisions,

social abilities etc);

Programmes, projects and

extracurricular activities, extra

school activities( the week anti-

violence, contests/exhibitions

with this topic, some specialists

were invited and they approached

inn an interactive way the topics

related to violence in schools for

various categories of target gro-

ups: students, teachers, parents,

representatives of the community;

law, responsibility, taking decisi-

ons).

-Examples of strategic interventi-

ons:

Campaigns for information and

alertness

System for monitoring the pheno-

mena of violence in schools at

national, regional and local level –

the procedure at county level and

the procedures from schools

The cooperation between institu-

tions and the involvement of the

civil society

Topics concerning violence in

schools in programmes for the

Violence is not a recent pheno-

menon in schools

Violence is not an isolated phe-

nomenon and it can have vario-

us forms

Each school and each one of us

defines violence in different

ways

The social tensions associated

to periods of transitions, chan-

ges- diffusion at school level

Changing processes are accom-

panied by tensions

The process of make schools

democratic- the need to re-

evaluate the actors´ role, sta-

tus, norms and values

The role of mass-media for

informing the public

The effects of mass-media in

children´s development

The microclimate factors form

schools are: factors from the

family environment; factors

from the school environment;

individual factors.

Examples of intervention in

schools:

The activity of the coordinators of the Partnership School-

Family ”Parents’ cafe”

P A G E 9 I S S U E 2

Target group: 50 coordinators who

are responsible for the Partnership

School-Family

Date: 25th April 2014

Organiser: the School Inspectorate of

Suceava County- School

No.1 Suceava

Moderators: Gabriela Mihai-

the principal of School No.1

Suceava, Tatiana Vîntur-

school inspector,

Lãcrãmioara Acatrinei -

methodist of ISJ Suceava.

Agenda contained

workshops concerning the

support activities for parents

and the Notebook with

methods ”Parents’ counsel-

ling”.

The notebook contains use-

ful tools for projecting, plan-

ning, organising and the

course of activities from the point of

view of the partnership school-family.

The offered working tools have the

role to improve the relationships for

counselling concerning the personal

development, the presentation and the

solution of specific problems, the deci-

sions that have to be taken, the control

of situations/ crises, affective

experiences or inner conflicts, concer-

ning the improvement of the relations-

hips with the others.

The notebook contains a presentation

of the Grundtvig project “Conflict mediation

to optimize communication in educational,

social and cultural environment” as well as

workshops:

Conflict- general data

Conflict understanding

Causes of conflicts

The results of the conflicts

Conflict mediation

The qualities of a mediator

Steps in solving a conflict

The presentation of a situation. The point

of view of the ”negative” character

Forum Theatre

The phenomenon of ”bullying”.

Conclusions: Parents’ education concen-

trates on actions directed to the practice

of the educative function and to the deve-

lopment of certain efficient practices for

communication and interaction in family.

These actions will help parents

know and accept their own child; to

approach in a positive way the

personality traits of their child; to

understand their child’s behaviour;

they will lead to positive influences

in the development of social compe-

tences for children; they will help

them know the stages in their

child’s development in time; they

will lead to their child’s process of

education; to the creation of a

balance between the family factors

for their child’s education- the equal

role of the both parents; to non-

violent ways of solving the conflict

in a family. Parents’ education pro-

duces a change in parents’ mentality

in what concerns their child.

Organiser: the School Inspecto-

rate of Suceava County- The

Forest College”Bucovina”

Câmpulung Moldovenesc( Cole-

giul Silvic ”Bucovina” Câmpulung

Moldovenesc)

Moderators: Laura Pintilie- met-

hodist of ISJ Suceava, Tatiana

Vîntur- school inspector, Violeta

Debren- educative counsellor

The workshop” Conflict mediation

The group of the pedagogues from

schools presenting the topic:” The

aggressiveness of indifference- the

aggressiveness of the social inter-

relationship examples”-ways of

diminishing the aggressiveness

between institutions.

Target group: 20 pedagogues from

schools from Suceava County

Date: 22nd May 2014

in schools” has as an aim to form

skills for taking attitude in situati-

ons of aggressiveness in school,

family, group of friends, society.

P A G E 1 0 Preparations for the next project

meeting

It was decided that:

The 3rd mobility will be in

Celje, Slovenia from 03.06.

2014 to 08.06.2014.

The Slovenian partner propo-

sed a work agenda for the

third mobility.


Participants (2 nd meeting)

P A G E 1 1 I S S U E 2

1 Andreja Jelen Mernik

1 Alenka Rumbak

3 Adrijana Hodak

4 Natalija Klepej

5 Tatyana Vasileva

6 Ivanka Mihajlova

7 Darina Pueva

8 Maureen B. Lawton

9 Edwin A. Lawton

10 Elisa Garcia Prendes

11 Ana Maria Lopez Fanjul

12 Pintilie Laura-Mirela

13 Acatrinei-Vasiliu Lacra-

mioara-Ana

14 Acatrinei -Vasiliu Cris-

tinel-Petrică

15 Vintur Tatiana

16 Apostol Felicia Geor-

geta

17 Mihai Gabriela

18 Bejinaru Alexandra

Veronica

19 Riccardo Morelli de

Rossi

20 Nicole Francesca Lisi

21 İlker EREN

22 Caner TURHAN

23 Erbil Ongül

24 Mehmet LAÇİNO

25 Nedim KURT

26 Kadir ÇAKMAK

27 Selami ÇELİK

28 Şenol GÜLÜNAY

29 Mine IŞIK

30 Yeliz ALDEMİR

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