What is Mendeberri?

The purpose of the project is to train individuals to accept their own training, to work in a team, to direct projects, to make decisions, to negotiate and to communicate.

In order to train these individuals it will be essential to change the classic model of education for another which promotes the student's autonomy; as the classic model is based on the mere transmission of knowledge and it is the teacher who attracts all the attention.

The new model also represents the change and diversification of the teacher's roles and functions. They are even attributed the function of tutor who will be in charge of directing and guiding the student.

Even the treatment of the contents changes in the new project. The contents are not presented in an isolated way as if there were no connection between them, but rather it is based on an interdisciplinary approach that promotes the relationship of various knowledge areas so that the student becomes accustomed to creating complex relationships. In this way, they will be qualified to tackle the problems and resolved them more easily.

Mendeberri proposes new ways of working. A sizeable part of teacher schools are decreasing whilst the work carried out in small gruops is becoming an essential mainstay of the educational project. Those groups directed by a tutor carry out cooperative work and the team members accept responsibility for their studies.

During the training the students will work in different teams. This way, they will be able to develop communication and human skills; necessary characteristics to successfully tackle the challenges of the professional environment.