Starting with the 2018-2019 school year, all visually impaired students can learn Romania’s history by methods adapted to a modern, digital and interactive or sensory education. Thus, pupils from all 7 special schools for visually impaired people in the country (Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Arad, Targu Frumos and Buzau) and all pupils with visual impairments enrolled in mass education will benefit from the material accessed through the ” History by sound and touch by the Tandem Association. The value of the project amounts to 47,000 euros, of which EUR 40,000 have been won through the Orange Foundation’s “World of Sound Foundation” funding fund, according to Business-Review.eu.
The project provides students and teachers with access to the online educational platform www.idea-isa.ro and a tailor-made educational material (digital and tactile) created by specialists from the Constanta Museum of History and Archeology, together with 12 history teachers from the country and 12 visually impaired students, to adapt all study materials to their needs.
The initiators of the Sound and Touch History Project will go to a sensational platform and sensory caravan to visit all 7 visually impaired schools in September to deliver the Sound and Color History package – training course, platform access and multi-sensory materials.
“We collaborated with specialists, blind students and history teachers to create and develop this project, because we needed a modern and tailor-made approach to teaching history for those children who can not read the standard textbooks and see the illustrations or maps. As soon as they reveal the secrets of the platform, the students become, in turn, discovers of historical stories,” says Mihai Leoveanu, the youngest history teacher involved in the project.
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