As a member of UNESCO ASPnet, our school had the honor to be invited to actively participate in the UNESCO ASPnet Global Online Meeting “Change Initiative” which took place from the 31st May to the 4th June 2021. This Global Meeting is one of the major activities and a component of the ongoing Change Initiative which aims to build a community of practice to promote Global Citizenship Education for Sustainable Development through Transformative Education, in accordance to UN SDG 4.7 for Quality Education.

In the framework of the Global Online Meeting, during the 6th session of Day 4 entitled “Living Heritage as an enabling force for Transformative Education” on 3rd June, Ms Katerina Christodoulou, Ralleio ASPnet coordinating teacher presented the school’s cross-curricular projects on integrating Intangible Cultural Heritage elements Mediterranean Diet and Rebetiko in the daily teaching practice. The projects were presented as a model for designing lesson plans to integrate elements of Living Heritage in the curriculum as pedagogical material to achieve subject specific goals on the one hand, and in order to address the three domains of transformative learning, namely, the cognitive, the social & emotional and the behavioral, on the other. Examples with more linkages were provided in the Q & A session.

The project on Rebetiko was designed by Ms Christodoulou in Vienna in October 2019 in the framework of the joint UNESCO-EU pilot project “Integrating Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in School-based Education” and was implemented in Ralleio Lykeio in November and December 2019 by Ralleio teachers Dimitris Aggelidakis (ICT), Efi Kakogianni (Physical Education), Dimitris Christopoulos (Greek Language and Literature) and Katerina Christodoulou (English as a Foreign Language) who developed lesson plans in the respective subjects.

https://aspnet.unesco.org/en-us/Pages/Global-meeting-TTIs.aspx