Art, TIme, Culture and Language (taalCULTuur) Erasmus Project

Project Title

Art, TIme, Culture and Language (taalCULTuur)

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

THE ARTICULAN-TEAM SET UP A FRAMEWORK FOR ARTISTIC PROJECTS TO OFFER CHILDREN IN CLIL AND REFUGEE CLASSES THE OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE ART.
The project fostered various innovative practices thanks to cross-fertilization of the participating organizations – PXL University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hasselt (Belgium), Porto University (Portugal), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) and Istanbul Cerraphaşa University (Turkey) – all four very complementary in expertise. Each partner analyzed the merits of education through the arts combining different domains of arts education and focusing on divergent processes & appropiate challenges for children in multilingual classrooms. Responsive teaching was crucial for qualitative interactions and collaboration in small teams. To create a warm emotional climate and safe environment where children are given time and space to explore, experiment, support each other and connect in small groups. The project evaluated to what extent local evidence-based practices can be transferred to other European contexts. Focus on social cohesion, inclusion and multicultural understanding stimulated positive perceptions, fostered the ability to value different opinions and created strong drivers for active involvement, personal growth and shared identity.
First of all we learned that multisensorial activities and modelling in teamteaching helps children to understand the goal of the workshop and the importance of different interpretations to feed the creative process. Focus on interdisciplinarity helps teachers to explain an activity for a creative process in a multilingual classroom. Combining different domains of arts education gives children the impulses they need to explore, to experiment and to experience a creative flow. It also helps children to interact in a meaningful way, because they give meaning to their creation in group, when they exchange ideas for a common goal. A warm emotional climate and focus on bonding help children to cross the speech barrier. We also learned that asking open questions out of curiosity helps children and adults to broaden their view and respect ideas, values and beliefs that are less familiar to them. We learned that teachers need to believe in the potential and the talents of each child and give impulses on personal growth. Teachers also need to model how children could listen with empathy, validate ideas and act with respect. This helps children to explore new horizons.
Participants in our multiplier events and train-the-trainer sessions confirmed that this approach strengthens the open attitude of the children as they participate in a joint approach in a multimodal creative process. They started to download our eResources shortly after the multiplier event. Primary school teachers focused more on interactive learning and responsive teaching to support the creative process. Artists of cultural organisations and arts academies paid more attention to communication and interaction for language acquisition in multilingual groups. They all valued the output of the ArtiCULan-project. It strengthens their key competences and fosters the basic learning skills as a whole. National policy-makers and educational decision makers were invited to the focus groups and multiplier events. In one country policy makers and pedagogic advisors will focus more on arts education in refugee class and for lesson of foreign language education in the curricula of primary and secondary education. This has a positive impact on primary school teachers who are more motivated to professionalize their teaching inspired by the value of education through the arts. All output is accessible online on https://www.articulan.eu/.

Project Website

http://www.articulan.eu/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 238515 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hogeschool PXL & Country: BE

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
• UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
• ISTANBUL UNIVERSITESI – CERRAHPASA