Project

So what did we do?

In September 2012 we started with getting to know each other, students and teachers from four different schools in four different European countries. Unfortunately, later one of the countries found it difficult to continue with the project. That left us with three countries; Greece, Czech Republic and Norway.

In October we made brief presentations of our schools, our sites and our countries.

In November we discussed different leisure activities.

In December we sorted the activities in 6 themes and organised mixed groups with students from each country.

In January the groups studied the theme/speciality of the group and discussed how to make the inquiry forms.

In February/March the groups did the inquiries among their fellow students, and counted the results.

In April they are discussing and reflecting upon the results, and making presentations of interesting founds, that you will find here in the sub-pages.

“Broadly speaking, leisure time is a period when young people choose what they want to do with people they want to be with. Young people’s leisure time is sometimes associated with potential risky behaviours (drinking, smoking or violence, etc.) but also constitutes opportunities to play, relax and learn through informal learning and development (i.e. out of the academic framework).

As confirmed by research conducted by the United Nations, leisure time is important in helping young people achieve a broad range of positive outcomes for their social, emotional, vocational, physical, cognitive and civic development and engagement. These positive outcomes may have an impact on both personal and community development.”

http://ec.europa.eu/youth/documents/youth_report_final.pdf

School homework and domestic work

In addition to the most popular leisure activities studied by the students, we also wanted to find out if there are differences in how much time the students are using on their school homework and their participation in domestic work in the different countries.

These questions are answered only by the students working within the project, 11 from Norway, 13 from Greece and 21 from the Czech Republic.

Inquiry forms prepared by the students

Mixed groups, with students from the three countries, discussed which questions they wanted to have in the inquiry form.

They also had to decide if the answers had to be open or multiple choice. The group leaders, one of the students, had to find out when they had discussed enough and who had to make the final form.

We can see that the groups have found different solutions, and they also experienced that their choices had influence on the work of the decoding of the answers.

Links to the group pages: