Transcript ITEMS Innovative Teaching for European Museum Strategies

ITEMS
Innovative Teaching for
European Museum
Strategies
Preliminary Meeting
Rome, 3rd November 2010
Andersen Museum
A few hints for our discussion
1) Focusing the Project on the
Leonardo da Vinci (LdV)
Program
2) Logistics
3) Dissemination and
Communication
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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Logistics
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Formal issues (certificate of attendace;
reports; invoices)
Schedule (plan of activities for the next two
years)
Dissemination and Communication
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Internet ITEMS site (contents)
Logo
External communication: wiki and youtube
External communication: publications
(bulletins/newletters/web site of partners’
institutions AND International magazines:
InSEA?)
Publication of final results: book? (who can
do it? what format?)
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 schoolmuseum;
 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. T
 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:
Involvemente 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.
www.anisa.it/items.htm
ITEMS LOGO, DESIGNED BY NICCOLO’ DESII
FOR OUR PARTNERSHIP
DIDACTIC EXPERIENCE BETWEEN
MUSEUM AND SCHOOL
AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL; the Italian Situation.
Mutual collaboration between Museum and Schools
within the context of the
didactics for secondary school pupils was perceived in our country quite recently
POSITIVE CONDITIONS:
Primacy of Italy in art history as mandatory subject at the secondary school level;
 Official Agreement between the Ministery of Fine Arts and the Minister of National
Education;
 Autonomy of Italian Schools as a boost for educational project and didactic
experimentation;
 Italian Prompt reception of EU’s recommendations of LLP
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OBSTACLES/REASONS OF CONCERN:
Lack of an in service training system for Teachers (not mandatory, not structured, lack
of awards for teachers career)
 Recent consideration of Technology as a didactic tool to have Museums and Schools
talking each other
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ANISA engagement on the field
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Training courses for
teachers on the field of
museum didactic and,
recently on the use of
ICT;
Research and
experimentation;
Development of a
culture of continuous
training
OUR PROPOSAL FOR FIRST
ITEMS’ MEETING
VATICAN MUSEUMS
PARTNERSHIP ON
TRAINING TEACHERS AND
MUSEUM EDUCATORS