Offer educational resources to teachers For stimulate meaningful reading among the European university students. This is the challenge that the project faces “REMAP: Reading for Meaning and Purpose”led by a team of Center for Civic Humanism of the Institute of Culture and Society of the University of Navarra and who received the Erasmus+ support from the European Union.
In the investigation, which will continue until fall 2027participate in University of Amsterdam (Netherlands)THE University of Latvia and the International School of Liberal Arts in Bratislava (Slovakia)as well as the network of educational centers of the COAS Groupespecially Biscay Ayalde School.
The project claims the meaningful reading as an ally to help students find meaning and purpose in their lives, which makes them more resilient and respond to their emotional, social and civic needs. Rosalia Baenaprincipal researcher and vice-rector of students of the University of Navarradefines this type of reading as reading that “affects the student’s experience, which can be linked to his or her life purpose, and which cannot always be taken for granted in today’s college student.”
As a result of this research, will be created educational material for university and secondary school teachers, including one digital manualA general subject and a training program for university teachers.
Likewise, the project includes the activity Reading mentorsa service-learning program that has already started in the Faculty of Communication of the University of Navarra under the guidance of the teacher Beatriz Gomezand where a group of high school students work with freshmen to improve their reading skills through different dynamics.
Inclusive values among adolescents and in environments with fewer opportunities
For his part, the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the University of Navarra participates as a partner in the Erasmus+ project Making inclusive values attractive in secondary educationwhich will be developed with the universities of TartuIn Estonia; that of Latviain addition to two training centers in Riga (Latvia)another in Estoniaand one in Valencia (Spain).
Its objective is to promote, through research and various activities, that inclusive values attractive to adolescents and put them into practice in educational centers. secondary education. To this end, it is a question of giving teachers the means to promote open and plural discussions and activities that promote inclusion and encourage moral and civic dispositions among students.
For two years, they will work on the project twelve experts with 60 secondary school teachers. “This transnational research will bring together the best practices and the most advanced knowledge in the promotion of inclusive valuesfrom a social and cultural point of view, among adolescents. For this, a manual for teachers; and one will be designed training course to support teachers in this task”, explains the teacher of Faculty of Education and Psychology Naval designwho, with Aurore Bernal And Álvaro Balaguerworking on this project.
In the University of Navarrathis Erasmus+ research project is part of the research group Education, citizenship and characterof the Faculty of Education and Psychology. The initiative will focus on certain sectors, sometimes less frequented: teachers and students in professional traininghe teachers with more years of experience and the students with special educational needs.
The objective is to get closer to those environments with fewer opportunitiessuch as teachers who work with young people at risk of exclusion, migrants, refugees or people with disabilitiesand provide them with the means to facilitate integration in class.
