Objectifs

Our intercultural exchange projects are experience-, process- and competence-oriented. They apply the following steps:

• Each participant gets to know him/-herself better – self-confidence.
• Each participant makes active autonomous efforts towards strengthening his/her self-confidence and continuously reflects his/her progress.
• Each participant is aware of the other participants and actively interacts with them – recognition and dialogue.
• Each participant actively engages with members of his/her own group and with members of the other visiting group (Swiss school class or other visiting group) – dialogue.
• Each participant reflects on his/her personal exchange experience, mainly with respect to the employment of personal resources, and records his/her insights in a form that suits him/her – reflection.
• Each participant increases his/her ability to handle conflict or crisis situations in a constructive manner and tries to employ strategies that are appropriate in the given setting – problem solving capacity.
• Each participant is aware that diversity is an asset and is motivated to use it as such.
• Each participant feels prepared and motivated to pass on to his/her community at home the impulses and knowledge gained – multiplication effect.
• Throughout the entire process, the Pestalozzi Children's Foundation is committed to participative educational approaches which consider learning to be an ongoing process.