Transcript ITEMS Innovative Teaching for European Museum Strategies

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Innovative Teaching for European Museum Strategies
Conclusions and further steps
Irene Baldriga - Paris, 7 th July 2012
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art
Focusing the Project on the
Leonardo da Vinci (LdV) Program
Reference to EU documents/Copenaghen process;
 Shaping ITEMS:
1) common objectives (Keywords:
Museum/School/Technology);
2) actions
 analysis of existing national situations
 research/experimentation of new experiences
 Results and achievements
 European impact
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Main strategies…
1) Discussions
2) Best practices
3) Conferences
4) Opening to a wider European space
5) Stronger focus on museum activities than on school experiences and curricula
6) Surveys and Research on the filed (questionnaire on students)
…and issues considered by our project
1) Importance of strenghening the training process of teachers and museum
educators (with mutual relationship and sharing of experiences)
2) Museum educational activities addressed to schools / the feedback of schools
3) Emergency of new didactic strategies in order to meet students’ needs and the
context of complexity
4) Museum as a common “learning space”, laboratory of knowledge and
competences, suitable to encourage critical thinking and to foster individual and
social skills
EU’S ATTENDANCES
A Leonardo da Vinci Partnership is a framework for small-scale cooperation
activities between organisations working in the field of vocational education and
training ("VET") which will be cooperating on themes of mutual interest to the
participating organisations. Projects can focus more on the active participation of
trainees, while others will concentrate on the cooperation between teachers, trainers
or VET-professionals.
AIMS
More specifically, LdV partnerships are differentiated from the partnership actions in
the Comenius and Grundtvig programme on the basis of the content of the activities,
which have to be clearly VET related. A second particularity of LdV partnership is the
strive towards participation of other stakeholders than just VET schools, such as
enterprises, social partners, regional, local or even national decision makers.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES
The LdV Partnership will produce an outcome or results which allow later dissemination
and further application of the results of the cooperation. This can be descriptive or
tangible, take the form of a common report, a conference, a CD, a tangible product as
developed for / on behalf of / with the involvement of trainees, a training concept in a
specific VET field, ...etc.
PERSPECTIVES
Partnerships could also be used to continue to cooperate on results achieved in a
previous project or be a first step towards a mobility or transfer of innovation
project. Partnerships are an excellent way of enabling peer learning activities for the
use of common tools as described in the Helsinki Communiqué, such as
transparency, EQF, ECVET, quality assurance, excellence of skills, competences for
key sectors.
WHAT WE PROMISED TO DO….
(from our application form)
DESCRIPTION
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Analysis, research and exchange on good practices with regard to museums as
educational resources in the very context of school training and with
particular attention to the secondary school level.
Exam of previous researches carried on in several European countries
Consideration of the peculiar aspects of museums like learning spaces (which
means different from the traditional classroom) where students can learn in
an active way, by connecting the two processes of absorbing and acquiring
knowledge.
Analysis of the relationship between school and museum and of the the
possibility of adopting the learning (formal and informal) experiences
normally made in museums, into the formal context of school learning.
Connection of these approaches to the national curricula will be also
examined.
WHAT WE PROMISED TO DO….
(from our application form)
MOTIVATIONS FOR THE
PROJECT
 Field studies to museums and
galleries are often proposed in a
random way and have poor
feedbacks in terms of long lasting
learning.
 Lack of a focused training for
teachers interested in the dialogue
school-museum;
 Lack of proper understanding of
the school context and of its
specific needs of teachers from the
part of Museums
WHAT WE PROMISED TO DO….
(from our application form)
IMPACT
 Encouragement of mutual dialogue among different
cultural institutions, mainly Schools and Museums.
 Producing a portfolio of good practices, competences
and knowledge which will encourage not only the
partners involved but the single trainees to update
their approach to cultural education through a much
wider European perspective.
 Checking the effectiveness of partners’ strategies by
comparing them to different realities;
 Reconsideration and, possibly, a “re-mediation” of
educational activities
 Confrontation with professionals of the same and of
different areas of activity.
 Encouragement of the integration of others’
experiences and their adaptation to even unexpected
realities, boosting creativity and experimentation.
 Flanking professionals of different fields and having
them working together to pursue successful outcomes.
 Creation of a web of experts and resources to make
this dialogue enduring and repetitive.
WHAT WE PROMISED TO DO….
(from our application form)
GOALS
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attention to modern technologies in the didactics of schools and
museums:
Involvement of in service and initial teachers, researchers and
people working into the field of education and museums
activity. Trainees will examine real case studies and will
participate to field studies and workshops
Enhancement of changes of organization and good practices in
the relationship between School and Museum.
Final results will be disseminated through the web sites of each
partner in order to enhance the impact of the training experience
(seminars) onto the communities linked to each institution
involved into the project.
FINAL REPORT
(EST – European Shared Treasure
database)
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Description (to be updated)
Results (Common and Individual)
“The term “result” has a very wide meaning, and can include paper and
multimedia resources, object, handwork and audiovisual material as well as
events, seminars, videoconferences, exhibitions, research, dissemination, and
in some cases, mobility activities, etc.”
GOALS ACHIEVED
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Involvement and professional development of in service and
initial teachers, researchers and people working into the field of
education and museums activity;
attention to modern technologies in the didactics of schools and
museums;
Sharing of knowledge about curricula and didactic approaches
of different countries;
Birth of a network of experts at a European level;
Involvement of a wide and heterogeneous number of museums,
private and cultural/public institutions (strong impact in terms
of dissemination);
Exchange of good practices and experiences;
Research on the field (practical involvement of teachers,
students, museums, schools; opportunity of professional
development for learners)
Our common results
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Surveys/Reports on the relationship Museum/School in the
countries involved in ITEMS
Description of each seminar (should we add also the
preliminary meeting?)
Website
Mid term questionnaire (with data and conclusions)
Research on students’ and teachers’ perception of museum
visits
ITEMS Video by MOME
Project blog
Papers to be published (by whom? when?)
Further dissemination (how?)
www.anisa.it/items.htm
ITEMS2 ?
For further steps, we might …
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Get a stronger attention to
technology (we would need a
partner specialized on the field)
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Focus on pedagogical aspects:
competences;
interdisciplinarity;
interaction between “curriculum”
and LifeLong Learning
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Get a wider involvement of
schools (maybe through “case
studies”?)
ITEMS2? Things to think of…
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The most suitable program to apply to
(Leonardo da Vinci or…?)
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Composition of the partnership (countries,
institutions)
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Possible candidates to coordinate the project
Thank you