Project “Open Class”: Development of Educational Competences For the Development within Non-regulated Training Courses

Abstract

The project “Open Class” was born with a socio-economic context which has forced the education of public spending within formal education. The lack of economic resources has attributed to a deceleration of strategies within education policies which lauded an increased attention for students with specific educative needs. The presence of a high percentage of immigrant population in Puerto Real (Cádiz) makes this kind of initiative necessary. The basis of this project is to offer educative support to these immigrant students and to the children of these immigrants who were born in the locality and go to school there. What started out as a group of six children between the ages of four and nine, and of Senegalese and Moroccan nationality has now grown to include the inclusion of more adults plus two more students of Pakistani origin who are in need of linguist support in Spanish. This variety of academic profiles, ages, family backgrounds, customs, cultures, although challenging, generates a multicultural dynamics of cooperation and of interest in learning and to know about the life of the other. This is how Project “Open-Class” was born.