School and concert – from transmission to dialogue

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DiSko is an innovation project intending to innovate school concert practices produced  and implemented nationally by Arts for Young Audiences Norway (AYAN) and regional partners in Norway. The project will innovate an established practice through research based innovation procedures in order to respond to challenges connected to school ownership and school integration. This research-based innovation work will be carried out over four years with a selection of schools and groups of musicians and producers from NCA within a budget of 7.4 mill NOK. The DiSko project will develop and try out alternative concert forms, which to a greater degree can be experienced and shared by pupils, teachers as well as musicians. Our research questions are:

  • How can dialogue based concert practices be produced in order to be integrated as meaningful and professional elements in school´s everyday life?
  • How can schools facilitate such integration in their work with teaching, learning and Bildung?

DiSko´s point of departure is that shared ownership emerges through equity-based relations, and our practical innovation processes will be grounded in this belief.  From the practical iterations of concert productions, researchers will develop analysis and research reports, and parallel to the concert production activities, a continuous implementation and discussion will take place. An interactive website will be a central component in the communication between researchers, musicians, teachers and users, other interested persons and organizations.

Funding: the Norwegian Research council (NFR)

Project owner: The Norwegian Concert Agency (NCA)

Research partner: CASE center, at Stord/Haugesund University College

Innovation-based student enterprise to enhance innovation in teacher education

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The EU project “SPACE” is a Strategic Partnership which recently had its kick-off meeting at the Dundalk Institute of Technology (Ireland). Plans were made for the realization of an ambitious 3-year plan to form an innovation-based student enterprise which will enhance innovation in teacher education. This will be achieved by introducing pre-service teachers to the Write a Science Opera (WASO) method of inter-disciplinary teaching and other approaches to STEAM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Arts/Math). The scientific focus of the SPACE project will be the European Space Agency’s research and technology as humanity moves forward towards a permanent base on the Moon. The next step will be to gather together in Lier, Belgium in November for a week-long Intensive Program (IP) about various STEAM approaches with teachers and students from 5 countries (Norway, Portugal, Belgium, Holland and Ireland). Stord/Haugesund University College will be represented by 5 music education students, Assistant Professors Jonas S. Olsen and Frode Hammersland, and Associate Professor Oded Ben-Horin. Following this, in the Spring of 2017, the partners will convene at the European Space Agency’s Technology Center (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Holland to meet with ESA officials and plan the project’s implementation with pre-service teachers in the various countries and the authoring of a WASO book. The first preliminary implementation has already started at Kinsarvik School (Norway) in collaboration with Bergen National Opera. At Kinsarvik, pupils in the 5th, 6th, and 7th grades are creating a science opera inspired by Black Holes which they will perform at the opening of the Hardanger Music Festival on May 31st, 2017.

Project coordinator: AP College (Belgium)

Global Hands on Universe & Galileo

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Global Hands-On Universe Conference 2016 took place in Stord,Rommetveit Campus, Norway from 22 to 27 August 2016, along with the annual Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) international workshop for teachers and educators. It was a great and very successfull week with participants from all over the world. The focus of the conference was the potential in meetings between arts and science education. In the video you can listen to some reactions from participants:

Global Hands-On Universe Conference 2016

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Global Hands-On Universe Conference 2016 will take place in Stord, Norway from 22 to 27 August 2016, along with the annual Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) international workshop for teachers and educators.

The conference will be focused on improving and propagating Galileo Teacher Training and Global Hands-On Universe throughout the world. Very significant efforts are underway in many nations, and experience has proven that by working together, we all benefit!  Significant advances in asteroid discoveries, activities, outcomes, assessments, workshops, and global impact and sustainability all have been realised since our last meeting.

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