About the project
Future teachers must become strong suppliers of premises when more and more time is to be allocated in everyday school life to external partners such as The Technological Schoolbag, Young Entrepreneurship and The Cultural Schoolbag.
The research project pARTiciPED will find new ways to strengthen future teachers in such partnerships. External partners give students the opportunity to gain experiences, useful knowledge and solid skills, but the activities are hardly linked to the curricula in school.
The use of time thus becomes a challenge for teachers, who are tasked with achieving the goals in the curriculum, with relatively little time available.
The pARTiciPED project will help solve this challenge for teachers, through research. The project, which is owned by Østfold University College, focuses on the largest contributor to date, The Cultural Schoolbag (TCS), which in 2019 received state support of NOK 285 million. pARTiciPED will contribute new knowledge about how the collaboration between schools and external actors can be strengthened, and how the collaboration can stimulate mutual learning and respect. The project will develop new and innovative methods in teacher education's school practice and in that way find out how the actual collaboration between external actors in the school (such as TCS) and future teachers can be developed. An important goal is that the contributions from external actors will -to an even greater extent- become an integral part of everyday school life, by teachers understanding their role, having a clear voice and setting their own premises. pARTiciPED focuses on two main issues:
- How can collaboration across sectors in teacher education be developed, implemented and evaluated to support transformative knowledge development?
- What are the main principles for cross-sectoral collaboration in teacher education, which give teaching students the opportunity to i) understand their role in teaching and in contact with students, ii) have/ find a voice and experience that they can collaborate with different actors, and iii) be able to see own and others' premises in a mutual perspective?
In the project, various TCS laboratories and so-called «third rooms» will be set up. Here, students, teachers, teaching students, artists, historians, communicators, teacher educators and school leaders will be invited. Good examples, methods, tools and techniques for collaboration on TCS activities will be developed through several targeted and participatory development courses with different themes and within different forms of communication. The methodology of the project is taken from the action research and anchored in methods that have been developed within participatory design.
Projectowner
Partners
University of South-Eastern Norway
University College of Dance Art
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Financing
The research project is funded by The Research Council of Norway under their FINNUT-programme for three years. Kulturtanken partially finances one of the phd-students in the project. Østfold University College finances one additional phd-student.
Contact
Projectleader Kristine Høeg Karlsen
Involved researchgroups
Art, creativity and innovation in education, praksis and research (Østfold University College)
Art in context (University of Agder)
Interaction design (Østfold University College)
Embodied Making and Learning (EMAL) (University of South-Eastern Norway)
Art and Young People (University of Agder)