Linking Intuition and Knowledge in Education – Building Cross-disciplinary Competences Through Art Expression Erasmus Project

Project Title

Linking Intuition and Knowledge in Education – Building Cross-disciplinary Competences Through Art Expression

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Creativity and culture; Pedagogy and didactics

Project Summary

6 Primary/Lower-secondary schools from 6 different countries (IT, FR, EE, ES, PT, UK), representing diverse European pedagogical traditions, have joined in the LIKE partnership (Linking Intuition and Knowledge in Education – Building Cross-disciplinary Competences Through Art Expression) in the conviction that the future of education and the guarantee of making learning more effective and meaningful is to be found in the intersection between disciplinary and cross-disciplinary competences.
Our pupils are going to need very advanced specialised competences on the one hand, and cross-disciplinary competences (personal, social and learning/civic/cultural awareness and expression/entrepreneurship) on the other. However, while most teachers know and use the right methodologies and methods to effectively teach subject knowledge, we are still at an early stage with regards to how to teach cross-disciplinary competences.
Drawing from Jerome S. Bruner’s text “On Knowing. Essays for the Left Hand”, where he stressed the importance of giving value to the “left-hand” thinking, the project LIKE is aimed at providing answers on HOW to teach cross-disciplinary competences: we need to teach with the “left hand” too, that is, open up the single subjects and have them talk to one another through visual arts, music, singing, poetry, body expression.
The LIKE research will look for ways of obliquely teaching cross disciplinary competences along a pathway that touches different subjects, connecting them through art, be it images, metaphors, symbols, poetry, or sounds. The main aim of the project is therefore to build cultural bridges to shift learning from the “left” to the “right hand” and vice versa. Along these bridges we can develop cross disciplinary competences by weaving scientific, linear, rational thinking with systemic, synthetic artistic culture.
In particular LIKE plans to:
1) implement a teacher training action on teaching/learning theoretical models and methodologies (constructivism in particular) and the pedagogy of competence teaching;
2) Identify and compare participative practices in cross-disciplinary competence teaching and learning in the partner schools;
3) create authentic tasks involving “left hand” and “right hand” activities for the development of cross-disciplinary competences.
4) create a proposal for a vertical curriculum of cross-disciplinary competences.
5) Engage pupils in collaborative authentic tasks on common themes to present their country’s cultural identity (1st year) and the partner countries’ cultural identity (2nd year)
The LIKE research will be developed through cooperation at distance and with transnational learning, teaching or training activities. A scientific committee of experts and coordinators of the partner institutions will guide and assess all the process: initial surveys, reviews of education systems, teachers and pupil mobilities, final products. Teams of teachers will contribute to outline the characteristics of the vertical curriculum and identify the target cross-curricular competences, as well as receive training from the experts of the coordinating institution during mobilities.
Each host school will create activities based on “left-hand”
subjects particularly developed in the institution , for which LIKE will have built suitable assessment tools (rubrics, self-assessment grids, storyboard).
2 e-twinning projects (one per year) will accompany the partners’ work at distance. On the Twinspace, pupils will interact and cooperate, as well as upload their artwork on the themes chosen.
The LIKE results and outputs will be disseminated internally and externally, during the project development and at its completion, through seminars and special events to be held in the different countries at the end of mobilities, during a final conference, through a digital publication, a LIKE blog, a website and an annual Newsletter. Pupils’ works will be included in the LIKE Twinspaces. The most significant results will be uploaded in the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform. All the didactic material (dossier of authentic tasks and assessment tools, indication for a vertical cross-disciplinary competence curriculum) will be collected and made available through the project website. The training activities for teachers will be used in internal initial or in-service training in the partner schools and through school networking.
Since LIKE seeks to identify and address teachers’ training needs and outline a system of key competences for pupils, the results are expected to have a strong impact on learning environments of the partner institutions’ also after project completion.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197971 Eur

Project Coordinator

ICS Giorgio Perlasca & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Hillview School for Girls
• IES Josep Maria Llompart
• Ehte Humanitaargümnaasium
• Xalbador Kolegioa
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Paço de Arcos