Joint Action Project

The presentation provides a general description of the Joint Action project. This project has been carried out by a team of psychologists and teachers in the Peder Lykke School, in Copenhagen. The project focuses on the joint responsibility between school and home and the cross curricular actions to be taken by teachers, pedagogues, the school management, PPR (educational psychological advisory service), the social and health services administration to assess pupils with behavioural disorders and help them to participate in the process of learning. Teachers are provided with concrete tools to handle children with special needs and to support them in terms of pedagogical working methods. The PPR (also called educational-psychological advisory services) has developed alternative service methods of advice and supervision of a class or a pupil's social life. Some of these tools and strategies are discussed in the presentation.