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The GSO4SCHOOL Consortium members gathered for the kick-off-meeting for the project on the 15^th and 16^th of October at HVL campus Stord, Norway. The coming three years they will train teachers in STEAM-education in general and the GSO-methodology specifically.

The GSO4SCHOOLS project’s main aim is to train and motivate school students and teachers in the innovative GSO-methology, fusing science and art through curiosity and creativity, and to strenghten the network that will work together, exchange practices and maintain the Global Science Opera activities in the future.

The project aims to raise both school students’ and teachers’ skills in social, science, cultural and arts aspects.

The project is funded by the ERASMUS+ Programme.

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At the picture, from the left:

• Oddgeir Randa Heggland, HVL/Norway (Science teacher)
• Menelaos Sotiriou, Science View/Greece
• Thomas Parissis, TPCT/Cyprus
• Anne-Beate Ulveseth Lilletvedt, HVL/Norway (Drama teacher)
• Nina Østensjø, Atheno/Norway
• Grethe Lønning Grimsbø, HVL/Norway (Administrative support)
• Elise Aabel Eriksen, HVL/Norway (Financial project adviser)
• Rosa Doran, Nuclio/Portugal
• Magne Espeland, HVL/Norway (Chair SAB CASE)
• Oded Ben-Horin, HVL/Norway (Head of department, Arts Education)

Sitting in front:

• Valentina Tudisca, CNR/Italy
• Janne Robberstad, HVL/Norway (Project coordinator)

Janne Robberstad is a PhD-student at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Campus Stord  researching the relationship between creativity and sustainability in a design-process. Working with international educational projects, the context for the research is the CASE-center project Global Science Opera, of which she also is the administrative production-manager. In March she participated in the Climate Reality Leadership Training in Atlanta, USA.

Her research lies in the crossroads of several fields, and it was an amazing opportunity to participate in a conference where environmental injustice was the main agenda. Atlanta, with its central history of civil right in the US, was a perfect background for getting a deeper understanding of this injustice not only being a matter of geography, but a direct result of active political choices. “We learned about the climate state of the world, of all the issues that desperately need to be solved, but also of all the great solutions already being implemented. I met other teachers who were amazed when I told them that sustainability will be an integrated part of the Norwegian national curricula from 2020.” Of course, here lies a huge responsibility for HVL, offering  Norway´s largest teacher education, to train teachers in how to do exactly this.

Twenty project participants, researchers and other stakeholders gathered for a 2-days seminar in early January to discuss their work and experiences in the first phase of the DiSko project

Teachers from participating schools, AYAN (project owner), researchers and musicians discussed results and findings from the first year of the DiSko project.

DiSko is an innovation project funded by the National Research Council, intending to innovate school concert practices produced and implemented nationally by Arts for Young Audiences Norway (AYAN) and regional partners in Norway. The goal of the project is to develop dialogic school concert practices through research based innovation procedures in order to respond to challenges connected to school ownership and school integration.

The first Status report “Tilstandsrapport 1, 2017, by Kari Holdhus and Magne Espeland” (in Norwegian) is published and available . “The project has come a long way towards piloting sustainable models/prototypes for production and distribution of school concerts and other art experiences for pupils were all groups involved in this work (teachers, musicians, pupils and producers) grow ownership to the productions”, says Holdhus. This first report focuses on a description of what kind of institutional conditions and participant attitudes which needs to be in place to evoke and build this kind of relations and partnerships between schools and artists.

The first cycle of DiSko continues throughout 2018. In the second cycle of the project, which starts early autumn 2018, 4 new schools from eastern Norway will enter the DiSko project

Two master students and a PhD student from the Faculty of Education, Arts and Sports at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences are linked to the project, thus linking the project to research and teacher education.

More than thirty participants were gathered at a 2-day seminar for DiSko late September 2017. Teachers from the four participating schools, project owner, researchers, musicians and administration representatives were present. a A draft of DiSko’s first report “ Status report” was discussed. The report has been constructed from data drawn from 12 interviews with teachers and rectors from the participating schools.  It suggests a picture of how schools deal with the subject of music as well as their own performances and guest performances. During the seminar, school participants and musicians discussed framing of activities at project schools this autumn. There also was a special gathering for participating musicians as a Group.

 

The project will be presented at The Arts and Education 2017: Integration or Separation?,  25. October 2017.