The project, Looking for likely alternatives (LOLA), launched in 2005 by the CCN Network is a pedagogical tool for teachers and students which assists them in the process of identifying, evaluating and documenting cases of social innovation towards sustainable lifestyles. The LOLA pilot project aims to adapt to the needs of higher education more…
The Teaching Pack tested and refined during LOLA’s pilot project contains:
_a Guide Book: a step-by-step guide showing the LOLA process to be used as a reference guide by kids and a didactic guide for teachers;
_a Reporter Book: an easy to construct booklet supporting the kids in making the interviews and taking pictures and where they should write down and draw all their observations
Downloads:
_LOLA Teaching Pack English SECOND version (zip file / 2,8 Mb)
_LOLA Teaching Pack French SECOND version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
_LOLA Teaching Pack Latvian SECOND version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
Currently, the translations available here below have NOT YET been upgraded.
_LOLA Teaching Pack English first version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
_LOLA Teaching Pack French version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
_LOLA Teaching Pack Belgian (flemish) version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
_LOLA Teaching Pack Portuguese version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
_LOLA Teaching Pack Norwegian version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
_LOLA Teaching Pack Lithuanian version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
_LOLA Teaching Pack Slovak version (zip file / 4,4 Mb)
If you wish to ask for a CD and prints of the Teaching Pack to participate in the implementation process, the CCN has a special budget for SOME SPECIFIC countries and conditions (no printing means and internet availabilities), please write to lolaXsolutioning-design.net ( please replace the X with an @).
Different European teaching training schools were involved in the experimentation and discussion of the LOLA Teaching Pack. Separate blogs were open to collect the work of the students in each school and clicking here you can access them:
_HIHM, Hedmark University College, Hamar, Norway
_IPBEJA, Politechnical School of teacher education, Beja, Portugal
_KATHO-RENO, Teacher training college, Torhout, Belgium
_VPU, Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vilnius, Lithuania
LOLA Teaching Pack & Reporter Book
The LOLA exhibition at CCN conference in Hamar, Norway had presented the progress of the LOLA pilot project with the state of the art of the Teaching Pack, the achievements of the schools involved and the perspectives of follow-up…
This first section showed the Teaching Pack in details, the step-by-step didactic process and the corresponding tasks in the kids Reporter Book.
LOLA pilot project in-progress…
5 European teaching training schools involves in the experimentation and discussion of the LOLA Teaching Pack. The second section of the exhibition presented the progress achieved yet by each of groups of students and teachers: translations of the Teaching Pack in original language, presentation of the case of social innovation collected, feedback on the didactic benefit of the process and adaptation needed…
LOLA promising cases…
During the LOLA experimentation process, the students involved and their teachers collected a series of cases of promising initiatives in terms of sustainability. The third section presented all the results achieved yet in the form of a text summary and relative patchworks of photographs.
LOLA discussion & follow-up…
The LOLA pilot project is half-way now. The purpose of this presentation and the LOLA workshop here during the CCN Hamar conference was to discuss and complete the material gathered.
The last section of the exhibition invited the visitors to take a pencil, a post-it and add ideas, comments, reactions and suggestions for the follow-up of the project…
The final report of the pilot process is now available here for you to download and read in .pdf format. It contains in detail the activities that took place, the steps taken and results achieved. Please be sure if you feel like, leave us your comments!
This is the Second 3 year cycle of the CCN network, so the LOLA project at this stage consists in refinement of the “teaching pack”. After a successful Pilot Process, the aim is to fine-tune and complete the material by testing it with secondary schools in Europe –possibly further- and re-evaluating through the observation and analysis of those experiences. This phase is foreseen to last from 2007 till 2009.
This process is coordinated by the CCN and SEP; and it is also supported by a team of voluntary LOLA Ambassadors (who are active members of CCN). For ensuring direct and clear communication paths with participating schools around the world, the role of ambassador per region or country simplifies relations and feedback to the project. Each ambassador will have certain duties of disseminating information and reporting a For that aspect, an Ambassador Franchising Kit has been created in order to facilitate and prepare their responsibilities. The recruitment of ambassadors process has already begun.
The Next step of LOLA project right now is to promote implementation in secondary schools in and also outside Europe… For that, we need a group of LOLA ambassadors that volunteer to relay the project in their own countries! (more…)
Dear all,
We are very happy to introduce to you our 8 Ambassadors which will be helping throughout the Implementation Process of the LOLA Project. Their role is to support the activities of the teachers and classes who will be willing to implement the LOLA process.
If you would like to contact them to let them know that you would like to participate or that you have already used LOLA, write to us to lolaXsolutioning-desing.net (please substitute the X with @) .
Our current LOLA Ambassadors are:
FINLAND_ Leena Graeffe_ University of Helsinki
FRANCE_ Christophe Bernes_National Consumers Institute
IRELAND _ Miriam O’Donoghue_Curriculum Development Unit (CDUEC), with the help of Mella Cusack and Conor Harrison.
ITALY_ Marino Melissano & Bianca Friundi_ Centro Tecnico Regionale di Ricerca sul Consumo Europeo - CTRRCE Bolzano
LATVIA_Vija Dislere _The Latvian Association of the Teachers of Practical Subject (PMPMA)
LITHUANIA_ IrenaZaleskiene_ Vilnius Pedagogical University
PORTUGAL_ João Jarim Fernandes_ Politechnical Institute of Beja – Educative Superior School of Beja and Alcina Dourado_Setubal Higher School of Education
SPAIN_Nieves Alvarez Martin_ Escuela Europea de Consumidores (ECONS)
All our ambassador are posting on their blogs!
Please visit our regional blogs to find more about the activities being done in your region:
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