School twinning. A cultural way to enhance cooperation for development.

Abstract

School twinning represents one of the most meaningful way to aim cooperation and cooperative organization. E-Twinning, currently one of the most common practice of twinning, aims to encourage European schools to collaborate using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), in order to develop and share educational projects. Being “twinned” with southern countries schools is nevertheless more difficult, and links become not so direct: that is why school twinning works best when there is a co-ordinator, an organization that takes commitment. The Nafamba Xikolwene – I go to school project aims to encourage and develop cross-cultural exchanges of knowledge between Italian and Mozambican schools, students' intercultural awareness and education to justice, in order to dismantle any structure of prejudices and stereotypes.