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Sign Language Index for Sports and Physical Education

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2019-1-PT01-KA201-060839
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for school education Funder Contribution: 181,622 EUR

Sign Language Index for Sports and Physical Education

Description

"The changes that have taken place in recent years in the education of the deaf (emanating from the recommendations of the European Parliament through the document A2-302/87, the United Nations Resolution 1994, the Salamanca Declaration 1994, and the UN General Assembly in 2006) require public schools’ new projects, a new profile of teachers capable of acting in different areas and with sustained training in the development of studies in the area of education of the Deaf.There is in Physical Education discipline taught in schools a space for learning language concepts and for the development of Sign Language for deaf students. Positive experiences and effective communication in Physical Education teaching can form the basis for regular practice of physical activities that promote health and well-being. But when sign language is not the domain of teachers and deaf students do not master spoken and/or written language, teaching can become complex and segregating. In addition, the lack of adequate resources, in this specific case, the lack of a bilingual glossary of comprehensive bilingual sports, which allows students to learn sports terminology and display the demonstration of their motor skill, can obstruct the ""full"" exercise of the teaching and learning process. When the teacher does not master the Sign Language, it must be supported by an interpreter, but the lack of resources, which make it possible to learn and update new terminology in Sign Language, can also condition the translation work of the interpreters, taking them many linguistic niches of Sign Language, since they also use this type of tools in the preparation of the translation process. Taking in consideration these identified needs, SportSign's main target groups are: Physical Education teachers, Interpreters and Deaf students.In practical terms, SportSign aims at developing joint initiatives meant at creating a Bilingual Sports Glossary as a self-learning pedagogical tool for free access at world level through an innovative approach to increase the effectiveness of the pedagogical strategy directed at deaf students in Physical Education and Sports, based on a 2-phase model:1 – Development of a tool kit - Sport Sign to be tested in class context by each partner country (Physical Education teachers, Sign Language teachers and Sign Language interpreters will be trained through an E-learning course);2 - Creation of an online community platform to promote cooperation and exchange of good practice between Physical Education and Sign Language professionals.The methodology proposed for the progress of the project aims at the effectiveness of its implementation, development, dissemination and sustainability. The project is grounded on 3 milestones: Milestone 1: completion of the comparative study; Milestone 2: SportSign toolkit and Sport Sign e-Community platform; Milestone 3: Analysis of pilot action results and sharing of good practices.The first output of the project will be a Comparative Study. For this study, each country will involve participants from the target groups in data collection, which will then be analysed, compiled and published. Along with this activity, two other outputs will be underway - the SportSign Toolkit and the e-Community platform. It follows a period of testing and validation of these ICT tools. A pre-testing with local participants will enable validation, product improvement and training of the target public in the user version. Students will be involved in sport, recreation and cultural activities to develop contacts with peers from partner countries and will create a network to promote the SportSign e-Community platform. Then the piloting stage will take place in each country and will be object of a monitoring and assessment process. The collection of the results will lead to the fourth and last output – the Good Practices guide. This Guide will be published and widely disseminated to schools with deaf students, sports clubs, associations of deaf people, physical education teachers and interpreters’ organizations and other stakeholders.SportSign will contribute to standardize the use of Sign Language in Physical Education discipline and Sports using schools as dissemination vehicle. From a sustainability point of view, the SportSign Toolkit can be easily extended by integrating more advanced sports’ terminology or by including other sport modalities, as well as through its translation to other EU languages.SportSign piloting activities expects to reach a significant number of participants. Approximately 25 physical education teachers, 25 interpreters and 100 deaf students will be directly involved in the project activities. It is expected that besides the piloting and after its end the project will impact on a much wider community."

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