Preliminary version of the Pillot project Repertoire of activities is available

After the team put heads together and suggested over 70 activity drafts for connecting language education with education about cultural themes and cultural heritage in the first phase of the Pillot project, 17 best fitting approaches were sorted and selected for testing in practice in all five partner countries: Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Italy and Luxembourg.

The final approaches were gathered in a Pillot project output called Repertoire of language education approaches in European context. This collection is a result of collaboration in the PILLOT Erasmus+ funded transnational project focused on exploring opportunities of connecting language and cultural heritage learning for adults with migratory and refugee experience.

The Repertoire is more of a work in progress for the Pillot project team of educators, and serves as a practical material for the implementation phase of testing education sessions for our learners to ensure we have shared consistent working descriptions of the activities. The first version of the Repertoire was finalized during a joint transnational training for educators in Florence in July 2024.

The Repertoire is a result of collaboration between all five partners, and has been edited and commented on by the Museum of Warsaw team, the coordinator of the Pillot project.

​The Repertoire of language education approaches in European context is available for viewing or downloading.

11 educators and target group activities facilitators participated in creation of the Repertoire, and together selected 17 final activities that are methodologically associated with the content and language integrated learning approach.

The introductory pages of the Repertoire are presented with a short introduction by the project coordinator Katarzyna Žák Caplot, including a project summary, context of its creation, and a brief methodic reflection on integrated learning. It is followed by several expert reviews by external evaluators from different areas of practice (linguistics, pedagogy, cultural studies and psychology).

​Katarzyna Žák Caplot reflects on the Repertoire as “a kind of brainstorming exercise in which 11 educators generated ideas on how to teach language through heritage, and vice versa. It includes activities created by both language and cultural educators,…”

a kind of brainstorming exercise in which 11 educators generated ideas on how to teach language through heritage, and vice versa.

Later are the activities themselves, which have been described in a clear and identical structure, including a description of the activity, its objectives, the possibilities of applying digital tools and, where appropriate, references to relevant scholar resources.

By publishing the repertoire, we want to give fellow educators and all interested parties a glimpse into the “kitchen” of the PILLOT project progress, and show how new educational activities of the integrated learning approach are formed.