Designation/Project-Title:	LIGIA - Learning in groups and individual Assessment
Homepage:	http://www-euro.educ.cam.ac.uk/ligia
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Actual date: (of the information)	11/30/2002

The project is:	an EU project
The EU project belongs to the program:	Socrates
under the action:	Comenius 2

Co-ordinating person:	Kenneth O. Turner, Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
Address:	HughesHallCambridge CB1 2EW
E-Mail:	Kot2@cam.ac.uk
Tel/Fax:	+44 (0) 1223740290

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Participating countries (In which countries the project takes/took place?)
Austria, Norway, United Kingdom.

Statistics:
number of participating persons / institutions:	8.
project-costs:	.

Short description:

LIGIA Learning Islands for Group and Individual Achievement. A 'Learning Island' is a unit of work for groups of students working cooperatively as an island. The LIGIA team has developed the 'Learning Island' concept, originally inspired by an innovative method of preparing apprentices and trainers, and applied it to mainstream secondary and vocational education and teacher training. Mainstream education is increasingly aware of the need to educate future citizens beyond the acquisition of knowledge and cognitive skills. There is a need to foster the growth of personal qualities and social competences by working in teams and study groups. These competences can be determined using self-evaluation techniques which help young people to develop and prove their social abilities in areas which are so important for employment and their future life. Education, preparation for the world of work and life-long learning require teaching and learning methods different from conventional didactics. LIGIA has been experimenting, with good effect, various pedagogical methods with teachers in several countries. LIGIA is able to promote new pedagogical skills for teachers and trainers, LIGIA envisages two stages in the growth of social competences for pupils, students and adult learners: Collaborative learning as part of class-work in early secondary education,· Group-work projects used as a learning method in upper secondary and apprentice training. LIGIA strategy is to create learning environments where the emphasis is for a group to complete specific tasks to help develop:·Social competences· Group identity & democracy within the team·Devising and working to a specification·Responsibility and negotiating skills·Self awareness and respect for others·Self and group evaluation of a range of competences-strengths and weaknesses Communication and presentation skills An advisory and moderating role for the tutor LIGIA principles can be applied progressively to small projects within an existing curriculum or as a special project .

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Can the results be transformed into other countries?	yes
If yes, Have they been transformed into other countries?	yes
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If yes, in which countries have they been transformed?	.

Documentation of the project:
Which materials/documentations/publications/instruments/etc. of this project do exist?
Course Material for Teacher Training Reports to the European Commission Webpage.
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