ISAMCE Part 2: Equality: Social justice/classism: differences in economic, social and cultural capital. Globalization increasing cultural and religious diversity, multiculturalism and religion

Project summary

Project description:
https://www.hvl.no/contentassets/1d8ff7909eb745cca3195eb426844427/isamce2018reykjavikraport.pdf

Website main project: https://www.hvl.no/en/project/496942/

TEN Intensive week April 09th – April 13th 2018 Innovative and Sustainable Æsthetic Methods for Citizenship Education (ISAMCE) Nordic and Baltic Perspectives ISAMCE-theme: EQUALITY Location: University Of Iceland. Reykjavik. Iceland.

Overall objects TEN, Teacher Education Network is a network with special focus on the aesthetic subjects in the teacher education. In this project, also lecturers of citizenship participated to collaborate on the question of citizenship education in addition to teachers in music, drama and arts/crafts. The overall objective of the project is to develop skills and competencies related to citizenship: the capacity for communication and dialogue, the capacity to live with others, to recognize and accept differences, sharing narratives in an aesthetical collaborative learning approach. The particular innovative approach of this project explores the current topic of citizenship through aesthetic processes and expressions in innovative transdisciplinary and multimodal ways. 

The participants in the course of 2018 were bachelor students in teacher education from 8 countries: Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. There were also teachers participating who came from all of the above nationalities. The criteria for selecting students was decided at each institution and there were on average 2-4 students from each institution. The local coordinator of the course in Iceland was Hanna Ólafsdóttir, assistant professor in Art education at the University of Iceland.